Platform Engineering: Building Your Developer Portal with Backstage — Part 2
In the first part of the tutorial, we learned about Backstage, an open-source CNCF tool to build developer portals, and we also created a software template to build secure-by-default software components for bootstrapping projects/repositories in GitHub.
If you haven’t read it yet, here is the link to it for you:
Let’s continue with our developer portal today and take it to the next level.
Please note that this tutorial builds on the previous part 1. If you haven’t created your developer portal yet, follow the first part before proceeding.
1 Use a PostgreSQL database
1.1 Backstage Database
In the first part of the tutorial, we learned that Backstage comprises two parts, the frontend, and the backend.
If you have played with the portal you created a bit, you will figure out that once you restart your yarn dev server, the previously imported components will not be there…
