Basic Software Catalog
Add your first services and teams to the Backstage catalog with proper relationships and organization
Lab Overview
Learn to populate the Backstage Software Catalog with services, teams, and APIs. Understand entity relationships, ownership models, and navigation.
You'll learn to:
- Create group entities to represent teams and organizational structure
- Define user entities and establish team memberships
- Register people in the catalog with proper metadata
- Create component entities for services and applications
- Define API entities and establish service relationships
- Test and validate entity relationships and ownership
- Navigate the catalog effectively and understand dependency mapping
This hands-on lab demonstrates real-world catalog patterns and best practices for organizing software in a developer portal.
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Prerequisites
backstage-local-setup
basic-yaml-knowledge
software-architecture-fundamentals
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This lab is part of the Backstage 101: Internal Developer Portal Fundamentals course
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