Backstage

Backstage is an open-source developer portal and software catalog.

Key Points

• Catalog entities include components, APIs, resources, systems, domains, users, and groups.
• spec.owner and generated relations such as ownedBy, dependsOn, and providesApi model ownership and dependencies.
• Metadata is typically maintained in Git via catalog-info.yaml.

Relevance to Init Intelligence

Backstage is useful as a catalog/ownership reference for context graphs. It shows how ownership and dependencies can become operational metadata, but it is not an authorization system. ^[inferred]

Related

• integration-and-context-layer-for-ai-itsm
• context-graph
• Engineering index
• Context and catalog peers: OpenTelemetry, NetBox
• research-initlabs-ai-itsm-engineering-stack