My new issue is out! After talking to hundreds of Platform Engineering teams in less than 6 months, I discovered how much most of them using (or who tried using) Backstage were struggling with it. What I heard is how much maintenance work it was required and how complex it was to build its own plugins and re-use what have already been done (Terraform / Shell…)… So is there another alternative to Backstage today? (some teasing here 😄 ). https://romaricphilogene.substack.com/p/platform-tips-20-why-backstage-is I’m also curious to get your experience. What looks like your experience with Backstage? Satisfied? Not satisfied? Why? thinking

I'm using the free tier of Port (getport.io). They have an active Slack community and respond well to customer feedback/issues there. I'm mostly using it as a pretty front end for self service actions.

@Teddy What type of actions do you provide in self service?

It's really just a frontend to hit a web hook. Port http requests come from a known IP address pool, uses cryptography to sign the payload so you can validate it on the web hook, and provides Google login identity context so the web hook can ensure the user has permission to do the thing

I spent several days just to make nice working Dockerfile

Atlassian's Compass is a great alternative to Backstage! I may be a bit biased, but I wish it had been around when I was a developer. 🙂