Behind the Curtain: Multi-Cluster Backstage Deployments With GitOps, Crossplane, and More!

Backstage offers incredible flexibility as a developer portal, but this flexibility and the lack of a one-size-fits-all approach leads to additional deployment complexities. Come explore how we cut through the complexity and wrangled our Backstage services with common deployment paradigms.

In this talk, we'll take a step-by-step look at the end-to-end process: from a custom Backstage app repo to running instances in multiple Kubernetes clusters. We'll also touch on the open-source technologies that make this possible; however, the focus should remain on the principles and results rather than the tools themselves. This talk should provide a structure you can take and apply to your own organization's platform and deployment strategies.

We'll tackle the following concepts:
CI/CD (GitHub Workflows, Docker)
GitOps (Jsonnet+Tanka, FluxCD)
CSP Resource Management (Crossplane)

So come join and learn how to structure to your next Backstage deployment!