Backstage with Plugins

In this project, I'm creating my instance of the Backstage app with the set of plugins.

Introduction

This instance of Backstage contains the following plugins:

• CircleCI
• Sonarqube
• GitHub
• Kubernetes
• HTTP Request Action
• Argo CD
• Prometheus

Installation

In order to start it locally, run:

yarn install
yarn dev

Before starting it, you generate and export tokens for CircleCI, GitHub, Sonarqube and Argo CD as environment variables:

export CIRCLECI_TOKEN=<YOUR_CIRCLECI_TOKEN>
export SONARCLOUD_TOKEN=<YOUR_SONARCLOUD_TOKEN>
export GITHUB_TOKEN=<YOUR_GITHUB_TOKEN>
export ARGOCD_TOKEN=<YOUR_ARGOCD_TOKEN>

Run on Docker

You can use my image of Backstage built from that repo. Just use the following command:

docker run -it -p 7007:7007 \
  -e GITHUB_TOKEN=<YOUR_GITHUB_TOKEN> \
  -e SONARCLOUD_TOKEN=<YOUR_SONARCLOUD_TOKEN> \
  -e ARGOCD_TOKEN=<YOUR_ARGOCD_TOKEN> \
  -e CIRCLECI_TOKEN=<YOUR_CIRCLECI_TOKEN> \
  -e NODE_ENV=development \
  piomin/backstage:latest

Customization

You can add and configure additional plugins to the Backstage instance. Once you do it, you can rebuild the project and create your own Docker image:

yarn install
yarn tsc
yarn build:backend
yarn build-image