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Backstage is an open-source framework for building developer portals, a CNCF Incubation project that brings order to microservices and infrastructure tooling.

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Overview

Teams that run many microservices, libraries and infrastructure tools often lose track of who owns what, where documentation lives and how new projects should be set up. Backstage addresses this by giving an organization one central place to find and manage its software. Backstage is an open framework for building developer portals. Its core pieces are a Software Catalog for tracking services, libraries, data pipelines, websites and ML models; Software Templates for spinning up new projects that follow internal standards; and TechDocs for creating, finding and reading technical documentation using a docs-like-code approach. A growing ecosystem of open-source plugins extends its functionality further. Backstage was created by Spotify and is now hosted by the Cloud Native Computing Foundation. It is licensed under Apache 2.0 and is aimed at platform and product engineering teams that want a self-service developer experience they can customize and host themselves. You can start with the Getting Started documentation on the project website. Open-source framework for developer portals and internal developer platforms. Hosted by CNCF at Incubation level. The project is distributed under the Apache 2.0 license. It suits engineering organizations of all sizes. It is also available in other languages on the project website.
  • backstage
  • cncf
  • containers
  • developer-experience
  • developer-portal
  • dx
  • hacktoberfest
  • infrastructure
  • microservices
  • self-service-portal

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Releases

checked Oct 29, 2026
v1.56.2LatestOct 22, 2026Official source ↗

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Quality profile

algorithm quality-v1.0 · assessed Oct 15, 2026
Quality Score91
Risk Score0
Confidence 1.00
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Score components

Maintenance · 2020
last activity 0 days ago
Documentation · 1515
README 5653 chars, description present
Ready to use · 156
install instructions: no; releases: yes
Metadata · 1010
4/4 of description, homepage, license, topics
Releases · 1010
10 release(s), latest 2 days ago
Category confidence · 1010
classifier confidence 1
Adoption · 1010
34625 stars (log-dampened, 10k = max)
License clarity · 55
SPDX Apache-2.0
Community · 55
issues enabled, 7691 forks

License

Apache-2.0
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Sources

github.com/backstage/backstagePrimary★ 34,625 starslast activity Oct 15, 2026Primary repository · Confidence 1.00

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README

From backstage/backstage · license Apache-2.0 · fetched Oct 29, 2026

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Backstage

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☀️ Summer holiday notice: Maintainer responses and reviews may be slower than usual during the summer holiday period. Normal service will resume after the summer holidays, but things may remain a bit slow until the beginning of August.

What is Backstage?

Backstage is an open source framework for building developer portals. Powered by a centralized software catalog, Backstage restores order to your microservices and infrastructure and enables your product teams to ship high-quality code quickly without compromising autonomy.

Backstage unifies all your infrastructure tooling, services, and documentation to create a streamlined development environment from end to end.

[software-catalog]

Out of the box, Backstage includes:

  • Backstage Software Catalog for managing all your software such as microservices, libraries, data pipelines, websites, and ML models
  • Backstage Software Templates for quickly spinning up new projects and standardizing your tooling with your organization’s best practices
  • Backstage TechDocs for making it easy to create, maintain, find, and use technical documentation, using a "docs like code" approach
  • Plus, a growing ecosystem of open source plugins that further expand Backstage’s customizability and functionality

Backstage was created by Spotify but is now hosted by the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) as an Incubation level project. For more information, see the announcement.

Project roadmap

For information about the detailed project roadmap including delivered milestones, see the Roadmap.

Getting Started

To start using Backstage, see the Getting Started documentation.

Documentation

The documentation of Backstage includes:

Community

To engage with our community, you can use the following resources:

Governance

See the GOVERNANCE.md document in the backstage/community repository.

License

Copyright 2020-2026 © The Backstage Authors. All rights reserved. The Linux Foundation has registered trademarks and uses trademarks. For a list of trademarks of The Linux Foundation, please see our Trademark Usage page: https://www.linuxfoundation.org/trademark-usage

Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0: http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0

Security

Please report sensitive security issues using Spotify's bug-bounty program rather than GitHub.

For further details, see our complete security release process.

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