These can be tools like Prometheus (for metrics), Jira (for issue tracking), Tekton (for continuous integration), Snyk (for security) and hundreds of more spanning countless use cases.
At OpsVerse, we pride ourselves on taking some of your favorite open source tools and bringing their usability straight to your fingertips - with no worries on how to manage them. For example, with ObserveNow you get a complete observability stack based on Prometheus, OpenTelemetry, Jaeger, VictoriaMetrics, Grafana and others working seamlessly together. With DeployNow, you get Argo Rollouts and Argo CD coming together to manage your cloud-native continuous delivery pipeline.
This power of choice is why we are proud to announce general availability of OpsVerse ONE - an internal developer platform (IDP) based on Backstage, the CNCF-incubating open source project.
An internal developer platform (IDP) enables an Engineering organization to continuously empower its developers. Also sometimes called a “dev portal” or “development platform” (whichever semantic you choose), an IDP generally brings together the following in a unified, cohesive interface:
Backstage is too rich to cover in this blog post. We’ll dedicate future posts to get into the nitty-gritty of what Backstage has to offer (we promise!).
The long and the short of it is its plugin-based ecosystem. Anyone is free to create their own plugin (they just need to know a bit of TypeScript), which can then be added to the Backstage deployment. Backstage, though a single-page application, is then just a composition of these plugins - making it easy to add integrations to your portal.
This is why we, OpsVerse, are so attracted to Backstage. We already allow our users to launch and use some of their favorite tools
By bringing OpsVerse ONE powered by Backstage, we can present our customers and users with a portal which has those (and more) already built-in - via the plugins we create!