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Anything you've learned worth sharing? How has your experience with Backstage been? Why did you choose it over other options? I might be working on a similar project soon.

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It’s too early to say, unfortunately (which is why my initial post was not super useful, admittedly). All I can say for now is that, in all likelihood, a _lot_ of customization will be needed. Ask me again in two months :D

Are there other good options?

Edit: Thanks everyone!

opslevel.com is worth checking out.

(Disclosure — I’m an investor.)

Thanks Andrew. (Disclosure: I'm a founder/CTO).

Backstage is super configurable, but requires that you build your own developer portal. That generally requires a dedicated team of people at your company to think about dev workflows to support, building plugins, plus hosting/maintenance.

At OpsLevel, we're focused on a much more turnkey solution. We want to get you up and running in under an hour, not weeks / months.

(Shameless plug) – founder of https://www.cortex.io (YC W20) here! We build an off-the-shelf developer portal. Backstage is great if you have lots of time/very niche requirements, but most of our users need a system that "just works" to drive ownership/best practices without adding a ton of overhead

We didn't have enough time for testing, but there's also Clutch, coming from the Lyft team. (Checking right now I'm not able to see a "releases" page with versions and that stuff...)

https://clutch.sh/

First time seeing this, but reading the docs it looks more like a modern take on Rundeck[0]. A way to give developers one-click access to operational tasks. Rather than a service catalog and developer portal like Backstage.

[0] https://www.rundeck.com/

We've just started using Atlassian Compass (https://www.atlassian.com/software/compass) for our software catalog, but it appears to be much less featured than Backstage. We're taking a look at replacing it with Backstage, and curious if anyone else has notes on the comparison.

Might find some near previous mentions:

https://hn.algolia.com/?query=backstage.io%2F&sort=byDate&ty...

Just saw this video where a similar platform is introduced https://youtu.be/Abdp_BnRIx0 This is the website https://kustodian.io/

It has more features including onboarding, access control, etc

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