Software templates in Backstage are vital for bootstrapping new projects, effectively reducing startup time and masking complexities. When provisioning infrastructure, questions arise on modeling both day-1 and day-2 operations and ensuring compliance with security and company policies.
In this interactive workshop, I will lead participants through these essential concepts. We'll explore how to integrate infrastructure provisioning into software templates and provide a detailed walkthrough of a reference implementation, including day-2 operations.
By the end, attendees will:
- Understand the benefits of provisioning with Backstage
- Identify challenges in provisioning infrastructure in templates
- Apply best practices through Backstage
- Automate continuous delivery and verification of changes using GitOps with Pulumi
- Build self-service enabled software templates in Backstage