Platform EngineeringAvailable
Backstage from Zero to Production
About this course
Backstage is the most adopted developer portal, but getting it to production takes more than npx create. This course covers architecture, plugins, software templates, TechDocs, integrations, auth, and production deployment.
What you will learn
- Backstage architecture: frontend, backend, and database
- Local development and the plugin system
- Building a custom plugin from scratch
- Software templates for service scaffolding
- TechDocs for automated documentation
- Integrating GitHub, PagerDuty, and CI systems
- Authentication and RBAC configuration
- Production deployment on Kubernetes
Your instructor
Ayodele Ajayi
Principal Engineer
Principal Engineer based in Kent, UK, with extensive experience across cloud-native security, platform engineering, and distributed systems. Ayodele has led engineering teams at scale and writes about what he learns — with a bias towards things that actually work in production.