Platform Engineering

Platform engineering is the discipline of building and maintaining internal developer platforms (IDPs) that enable self-service capabilities for software engineering teams. The goal is to reduce cognitive load, standardize infrastructure provisioning, and accelerate delivery while maintaining governance and security guardrails.

Deployment boundaries

Pin and review tool, chart, provider and template versions before installation. Localhost Backstage config is development-only: production requires TLS, authentication, permission policy, secret management and restricted proxy/RBAC. Portal forms do not authorize cloud changes; enforce tenancy, costs and production approval at the API/controller. Examples are integration sketches, not a tested platform.

2. Backstage Setup

Backstage is the leading open-source developer portal framework, originally created at Spotify.

Installation

# Prerequisites: supported Node/Yarn versions required by the pinned Backstage release
npx @backstage/create-app@latest