[translation] the background project has joined the CNCF incubator

Published on 2022 year 3 month 15 Japan

CNCF Technical Supervision Committee （TOC） Have voted to accept Backstage As CNCF The incubation program of .

Backstage It's an open platform , Used to build a developer portal maintained by the global community . It will be an organizational tool 、 service 、 Applications 、 Data and documents are unified into a single 、 Consistent user interface , Make it easy for developers to create 、 Manage and explore Software .

Backstage On 2016 In Spotify establish , At that time, the development speed of the company was amazing , The entry of new engineers has become a challenge . The project became Spotify Key tools for , Used to control software chaos , Make engineers faster 、 Work more effectively .Spotify stay 2020 year 3 The month is open source. Backstage, Share their experiences with the wider community .

"CNCF TOC Members and project sponsors Erin Boyd say ：" The software stack is becoming larger and more complex --Backstage Is established to solve SaaS The problem of spreading and cloud everything , This can complicate the developer experience ." Improving the developer experience is increasingly important , We are glad to see Backstage The community took this step , And look forward to strengthening cooperation between ecosystems ."

since 2020 year 9 month Backstage Get into CNCF Since sandbox , The core components and functions of the project 、 plug-in unit 、 contributor 、 Both adopters and community participation have increased . In the upcoming core framework 1.0 Before the release , The team has taken time to update 、 perfect 、 Record 、 Abolish and stabilize the core components , Including software catalogue 、 Software template 、 Technical documentation and API Reference resources .

today ,Backstage By 100 Public companies adopt , Including American Airlines 、Expedia The group 、HelloFresh、Netflix、Peloton、Roku、Splunk、Wayfair、Zalando, wait . The scope of application involves various companies and industries , Including retail 、 game 、 financial service 、 Manufacturing and government . It also has a thriving open source community , Yes 500 Multiple developers submit PR, Add new features , And build plug-ins .

"Spotify Senior website Reliability Engineer Johan Haals say ：" See organizations from different industries adopt Backstage As their development platform , And work together to provide everyone with a better developer experience , It's amazing ." In the past year , Our community has been greatly developed , I am excited about the efforts made by the community to speed up the project ."

Core components .

• Background software directory , For managing all your software （ Microservices 、 library 、 Data pipeline 、 Website 、ML Model, etc ）.
• Background software template , Used to quickly start new projects , And standardize your tools with your organization's best practices
• Background technical documents , Use " Documents like code " Method , Make create 、 maintain 、 It's easy to find and use technical documents .
• Background plug-ins , Through the growing ecosystem of open source tools , Expand customizability and functionality , Easily integrate into your background experience .

Significant milestones .

• stay Plug in market There are 60 Multiple open source plug-ins , Including official plug-ins （Snyk、FireHydrant）、 Highly demanding plug-ins （PagerDuty、Prometheus） And plug-ins based on new ideas and functions （XCMetrics、Tech Insights）.
• exceed 100 Publicly listed adopters
• 2k+ Bifurcation
• 20k+ Submission of
• 500 Multiple contributors
• 9k+ PRs & issues
• 15k+ GitHub Stars on
• 4k+ Discord member

"CNCF Chief technical officer Chris Aniszczyk say ：" With the rise of cloud native development , The ability to catalog and index services is necessary to improve the developer experience and improve efficiency ." Developer portal , Such as Backstage, Based on the idea of service directory of cloud native deployment , It also provides the ability to extend the portal through various plug-ins . With the development of the plug-in ecosystem of the project , We hope to see platform engineering teams around the world accelerate the adoption ."

Because the core maintainer is committed to the maturity of the platform , And the contributors of the whole community continue to provide enhanced functions through the plug-in ecosystem 、 Bug fixes and new features , The backstage is developing rapidly . The team is committed to maintaining The public road map Update , To help the community understand how and where to contribute , And plan to start coordinating special interest groups （SIG） To promote community contribution .

As a CNCF Managed projects ,Backstage It is part of a neutral foundation consistent with its technical interests , It's also bigger Linux Part of the foundation , The latter provides management 、 Marketing support and community promotion .Backstage Added incubation Technology Argo, Buildpacks, CloudEvents, CNI, Contour, Cortex, CRI-O, Dragonfly, emissary-ingress, Falco, Flux, gRPC, in-toto, KEDA, Knative, KubeEdge, NATS, Notary, OpenTelemetry, Operator Framework, Rook, SPIFFE, SPIRE, and Thanos, Maturity requirements for each level , Please visit CNCF Graduation criteria .

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