Basic Software Catalog

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.

Key Resources:

• Backstage Catalog Overview
• Entity Descriptor Format
• System Model