UPGRADE BACKSTAGE FROM A PORTAL TO A PLATFORM
Developers love the point-and-click service catalog and application scaffolding experience of Backstage, but platform teams often struggle with managing, upgrading, and scaling the portal.
Combining Syntasso Kratix Enterprise (SKE) and Backstage internal developer portal enables you to:
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Ship faster: Build an API-driven composable platform that can be configured via UI, APIs, and CLI.
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Reduce costs: Enable co-creation of your platform and reduce portal maintenance time and expense.
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Deliver safer: Ensure best practices and policies are implemented on day one, day two, and beyond.
Build Platforms People Use
via Portals, APIs, and CLIs
Are your development teams struggling with day two issues, such as upgrading and monitoring, resulting in reduced shipping velocity? Are platform engineers becoming frustrated with the time and cost of maintaining Backstage? Are policy requirements applied inconsistently across your organisation, leading to increased auditing requirements or compliance violations?
By enabling you to build better platform APIs, abstractions, and automation, integrating Syntasso Kratix Enterprise (SKE) with Backstage addresses these problems and more.
Ship applications faster via UI, API, or CLI
Reduce portal costs with better APIs, abstractions, and automation
Deliver software safely on days 1, 2 and 2000
A PORTAL IS ONLY ONE PART
OF YOUR PLATFORM
Today
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Your platform team is becoming a Backstage team, and the answer to every delivery challenge is, “Let’s build a plugin for that.”
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Teams are starting to engage in invisible shadow platform engineering, using unapproved SaaS offerings or stitching together duplicative DIY solutions.
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Developers are struggling to use Backstage to support day two use cases, such as upgrades, maintenance, and policy changes.
With Syntasso Kratix Enterprise
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SKE enables platform engineers to focus on enabling developers to ship software via platform portals, APIs, and CLI.
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SKE supports the co-creation of platforms by enabling teams to contribute or “inner source” services in the language they are most comfortable with.
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Developers can collaborate with platform engineers to codify day two support into reusable SKE workflows.
Integrate Syntasso Kratix Enterprise with Backstage
Syntasso Kratix Enterprise (SKE) is the "invisible glue" between your internal developer portal (IDP) and infrastructure layer, acting as a platform orchestrator. SKE enables platform engineering teams to create and offer everything-as-a-service (XaaS) that can be consumed via a UI, API, or CLI.
Your Backstage instance can focus on what it does best -- providing a service catalogue, technical documentation, and developer hub -- and Kratix supports platform engineering teams in providing composable platform components that can be managed effectively on day one, day two, or day two thousand.
Why Should You Care About
Upgrading Backstage with Kratix?
Application
Developers 👩💻
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Deploy infrastructure and services via a portal, API, or CLI
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Co-create service APIs, implementations, and compliance workflow with platform engineers
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Share and reuse existing platform components from your organisation and the SKE marketplace.
Platform
Engineers 👷🏽
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Provide a self-service platform and hide complex configurations behind a Promise API.
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Embrace an “inner source” model by cultivating platform contributions from additional teams.
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Enforce best practices and policy requirements by default.
Organisation
Leaders 👩✈️
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Enable engineers to ship software how they want, faster, safer, and at scale.
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Reduce platform maintenance time and cost while maintaining control.
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Ensure organisation compliance and governance are applied consistently.
LET YOUR PLATFORM FULFIL ITS PROMISE
CHOOSE SERVICES TEAMS ALREADY LOVE
Enable teams to ship software quicker by composing existing applications, services, and infrastructure components available as Promises in the Kratix Marketplace.
Deploy Redis, AWS S3 buckets, cert-manager, and more within minutes.
SELF-SERVE VIA API, PORTAL, OR GITOPS
Get value from your platform by using the most appropriate user experience for the task at hand or the user's requirements.
Integrate services using APIs, deploy apps via a portal, and configure infrastructure using GitOps.
FREE ENGINEERS TO CREATE & SHARE
Enable multiple teams to co-create your platform using the popular inner source model of contribution.
Centalised platform engineering teams can source, test, and integrate services from across your organisation.
TAME THE FLEET: AUTOMATE WORKFLOWS
Encode and share policy, guardrails, and compliance requirements in Workflows.
Centralised platform teams can ensure policy is enforced globally, manage upgrades, and correct configuration drift as the underlying compute and cluster fleet scales.
TALK WITH AN EXPERT
Take your first step towards
upgrading Backstage with Kratix
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Go Faster
Provide Promises for
“everything as a service”
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Decrease risk
Automate manual processes in reusable Workflows
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Increase efficiency
Manage your digital platform on day 1, day 2, and day 2000
