Backstage Demo

Backstage project is available with docker isn't necessary to run locally and install dependencies

Here the links

• Backstage - UI
• Backstage - BE

Useful links

• Postgres
• Redis
• Gitlab
• ArgoCD
• ArgoCD Swagger

Installation

1. Add these 2 hostnames to /etc/hosts

   echo "127.0.0.1 gitlab.local" | sudo tee -a /etc/hosts
   echo "127.0.0.1 gitlab-runner.local" | sudo tee -a /etc/hosts
   echo "127.0.0.1 postgres.local" | sudo tee -a /etc/hosts
   echo "127.0.0.1 redis.local" | sudo tee -a /etc/hosts
   echo "127.0.0.1 argocd.local" | sudo tee -a /etc/hosts
   echo "127.0.0.1 hello-world-app.local" | sudo tee -a /etc/hosts
   echo "127.0.0.1 hello-world-service.local" | sudo tee -a /etc/hosts
   echo "127.0.0.1 kind-backstage-demo-cluster.local" | sudo tee -a /etc/hosts

2. Create Kubernetes Cluster with script startup under folder tools

   ./startup.sh

3. Tilt use docker-compose file as default

   tilt up

The latest command will create and run a container of gitlab, postgres and redis. All of them are mandatory to execute backstage and own templates.

Kubernetes cluster

To configure kubernetes just run startup.sh under folder tools which includes

• Kind cluster called kind-backstage-demo-cluster
• NGINX ingress controller
• ArgoCD at http://argocd.local:7443
• Backstage credentials to access to kubernetes

The entrypoint for kubernets cluster are :7080 for http and :7443 for https

NOTE: additional ingress hostname must be added to /etc/hosts

Run Hello World Template

docker run --rm -d -p 3001:80/tcp gitlab.local:5050/backstage-demo/hello-world-app/hello-world-app:main-COMMIT
docker run --rm -d -p 8080:8080/tcp gitlab.local:5050/backstage-demo/hello-world-service/hello-world-service:main-COMMIT

• Hello World App
• Hello World Service