Autodesk’s vision of a platform built on the Kube API and operator pattern is proving to be a compelling capability fabric. With it, platform engineers can open the door to product teams to contribute capabilities to one another in a well patterned framework. This decoupling of ownership is powerful and will lead to a robust ecosystem of platform features. The inevitable diversity is a double edged sword however, and users will need a friendlier interface than kubectl to navigate it.

Enter Backstage. A single portal for discovery and self-service resource management.

When paired with our platform, Backstage Software templates offer wizard-like interfaces to the custom resources being contributed. But who creates these Software Templates? Can we avoid asking contributors to do even more work?

In this talk, Jesse and Manabu will discuss Autodesk’s platform capability contribution model and demo a new open source tool to automatically create backstage software templates from CRDs.