Platform engineering is the discipline of designing and building toolchains and workflows that enable self-service capabilities for software engineering organizations in the cloud-native era.

Platform Engineering

I'm about to have a play around with Kubevela and it's UI add-on.

^ purely for self hosted projects at this stage nothing production ready :sweat_smile:

cool I might try that myself on the weekend :sunglasses:

I'm interested in learning about Backstage alternatives, because it's a great foundation but very complex to setup and customize for actual usage

Yes, and it seems like every plugin (at least the ones I'm interested in) require coding to actually use, like the Tech Radar and Cloud Costs plugins

Circling back to this. I haven't had a lot of luck finding the time to play properly with Kubevela yet but noticed this reply to a similar query mentioning Env0 which I hadn't heard of before.

<https://platformengin-b0m7058.slack.com/archives/C02DF3KKNES/p1666013221044759?thread_ts=1666012271.619629&amp;cid=C02DF3KKNES>

I'll follow this thread. I've tried backstage 6months+ ago, and the necessary coding for basic configuration (imho) was a no go. Too steep of a learning curve for the skills in the team.