Crossing Planes: Backstage + Crossplane for the Ultimate for Platform Magic
summary
Integration shows Backstage hooked to Crossplane with Argo CD and Kyverno to expose XRD-backed APIs as form-driven components, automatically generate software templates from XRDs, and create GitOps PRs that Argo CD syncs into ApplicationSets. Demo provisions a Postgres instance with VPC and networking via a composition, surfaces resource trees and policy failures in the catalog, and lets developers fix manifests through the scaffolder. Live MCP integration runs AI tools (Copilot/Claude) to query crossplane resources and policy violations. Backstage + Crossplane automated template generation GitOps PR flow MCP AI tools
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chapters (11)
- 0:00Backstage + Crossplane intro
- 1:24Crossplane for infra
- 7:11Why integrate them
- 11:04Demo setup & catalog
- 12:31Web app via Backstage
- 13:54GitOps with Argo CD
- 15:17New database API
- 16:40Day two ops & policy
- 18:53AI with MCP tools
- 20:57Key takeaways
- 23:23Q&A
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