🚀 ❓ Does anyone have some kick-ass examples, in writing, talks or publicly available, that showcase what a well-customized backstage setup can look like? ❓🚀 BG: we have an IDP on backstage by a neighbouring team and are debating going all-in ourselves or finding something else. I'd love to give some more examples of what this could look like to some people around here. I unfortunately could not find any bookmarks of great examples myself but remember seeing some talks that wowed me way beyond what we have in our org so far 😉

I have seen a few "great" deployments of Backstage, but I would say these are largely few and far between. Unfortunately, I am unable to find public talks/video/docs for some of the great ones I have seen. What I can say is that those instances have required full, dedicated teams to manage these portals at scale, usually in-house but may also be possible through a managed Backstage provider. (Full disclosure: we built a managed Backstage offering that we have recently EOL'd in favor of a new fully-customizable, AI-first approach) I suspect that this could be the reason there are so few "great" publicly-available deployment examples: teams want what Backstage can offer, but find it extremely difficult to deploy, customize, and maintain. And, further, find it even harder to dedicate resources to that work. So, most end up with a very "stock" look/feel that may very well become limited by their own ability to service it.

Thanks a lot for sharing this perspective. I had a slight fear I might get this sort of input 😄

Are there specific use cases you're targeting? Some approach it for service catalog, others for consolidated docs, and other (still) for software templates.

For now we are mostly looking at a single place to search all docs and there is already light usage of templates but I am not sure whether we would use that. Some would love a service catalog, but I personally doubt how many people would truly use it. IMHO good docs with a clear "create a PR here to provision a workspace for your needs" can bring us a long way. Discoverability and spotting similarities/redundancies are our bigger challenges

I’ve enjoyed a lot the op financial demo I think there is another demo in previous community sessions

Agreed. Looks great. I can only imagine how much effort went/goes into that.

Yes they have a big team focused on that