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You are right, this is not going to be trivial and you definitely need buy-in on a management level. Backstage is pretty malleable but the only way to get it to
by royjacobs 4y ago
You are right, this is not going to be trivial and you definitely need buy-in on a management level. Backstage is pretty malleable but the only way to get it to work in an organisation if there is only a single source of truth for things like your software catalog.
If there is a lot of legacy in your org, or if there is not enough buy-in then it will definitely be "yet another" system. There's a lot of functionality to unlock once you have a bunch of data in Backstage, though, so that could help tip the scale. The cloud costs dashboard that helps to show how much every service costs is a good demo :)
One benefit to Backstage's approach is that you don't necessarily need to change your processes and tooling to work with Backstage. It can help, but it's not a strict requirement. Other tooling in the space requires you to buy in to their specific workflows and so on whereas Backstage is a bit more agnostic.