Streamlining Cloud Adoption with Backstage: A Developer's Journey
summary
Booking.com uses Backstage as a plugin-driven portal that turns onboarding steps into automated flows: self-service account provisioning buttons create cloud accounts while parallel plugins handle security, GDPR and compliance, and a ServiceNow approval integration routes approvals. The initial deployment runs without Backstage’s software catalog by mapping search and internal tools into the portal, scales to over 100 projects per month, enforces linting and code-owners, and reduces developer onboarding time while moving toward software templates and a proper catalog.
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chapters (9)
- 0:00Cloud adoption challenges
- 4:40Backstage in Booking.com’s cloud journey
- 9:57Custom plugins for cloud enablement
- 14:36Why Backstage over custom solutions
- 18:49Unifying developer experience
- 20:34Future plans for Backstage
- 22:43Q&A on plugin standards
- 26:19Plugin development advice
- 27:23When to migrate to Backstage
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