Ortelius Open Source / Beaming Ortelius Podcast

Spotify Backstage is an open platform for building developer portals. It provides a set of TypeScript libraries that can be composed together to build a developer portal for your engineering organization.

It was created inside Spotify and used there for a few years before being open-sourced in 2020. It is now a CNCF Incubating project. It combines a service catalog with a developer portal UI in order to improve engineering effectiveness and overall happiness.

Spotify Backstage can help you tackle a number of different engineering challenges.
- It collects software, tools, teams, people and other assets into one place where they can be easily searched and organized. This helps improve discoverability.
- It tracks teams and software assets, and making it easy to create a clear linkage between them.
- It makes it easy to define pre-approved templates and create new software from them. This speeds up the software development process and improves production reliability and homogeneity.
- It is the perfect place to detect when an engineering standard is not being upheld and it can nudge teams in a better direction.

The main features of Spotify Backstage include a software catalog, a framework for building plugins, a place to store technical documentation (TechDocs), Software templates and a scaffolder to run them and a Kubernetes plugin for providing visibility into how services operate there.

There are two main ways to get started with Spotify Backstage. You can self-host the open-source project, or you can use a SaaS provider such as Roadie.

In this episode, I'm joined by Chris Aniszczyk to talk about Kubecon + CloudNativeCon (EU and NA )2022 and discuss all the vendor announcements from the past couple of weeks. Kubecon NA had close to 17,000 joined virtually, from all across the world. Of that number, close to 7,500 joined in person, and that doesn’t include the Phippy and friends' family, who made an appearance too! 61% of attendees joined for the very first time. This podcast is all about removing the curtain, going backstage, appreciating all hidden people involved, getting the idea around what it takes to the central stage, and what makes it a unique and most-watched IT conference in the world (correct me if I'm wrong).

Below, you can find links to the things discussed during the podcast:

In this podcast, Michael Crenshaw, Senior Software Engineer at Intuit and core engineer on the Argo CD and Argo Rollouts projects, sat down with beamingortelius podcast host Saim Safdar and discussed the Argo projects, continuous delivery with Kubernetes, and how platform teams can help developers embrace modern release techniques and related technologies. We also try to shed light on how you can start contributing to the Argo eco-system and all the fresh new updates to Argo tooling mostly importantly we'll be covering most of the KubeCon updates around the Argo community.

As the container ecosystem matures, there is an increased need for new standards and runtime environments that take into consideration security and provenance concerns, driving the next generation of tools and recommended practices to build container images.

Let's discuss the latest developments in distroless images and the open-source container toolkit developed by Chainguard to build Wolfi, the first Linux un-distro created specifically for the Cloud Native Era.

Taking a cloud application from local development to production is difficult. It requires packaging the application and its dependencies, integrating against libraries and SDKs for the cloud of your choice, provisioning infrastructure on your chosen cloud provider, and doing so in a repeatable way.

It takes experience and knowledge to choose the right infrastructure for the developer’s use case, and changing requirements can further complicate matters. It’s time-consuming, error prone, and requires application changes for experts in infrastructure and cloud operations to provision infrastructure in a repeatable manner. Engineers and small teams often turn to managed services to simplify the process. Utilizing these services come with quite a few downsides, including vendor lock-in, nonstandard technologies, and black boxes that cannot be tweaked.

What if you could take advantage of all the cloud's features while focusing on application code during development? What if a system could determine what cloud resources would be required based on your code? As your requirements change, what if you could change these cloud resources dynamically or switch cloud providers entirely without modifying your code? When adding a load balancer, storage, or any other dependency to your application, this system would automatically determines what pieces are required. Klotho provides a unique approach to solving these problems while avoiding the common issues associated with typically managed service solutions.

Microservices, CI/CD Trends, GitOps, and yes DevOps are the topics of this podcast. Hosted by the techies on the Ortelius Open Source Community Team.

Ortelius is an open-source Microservice Catalog designed to simplify the complexities common in a cloud-native architecture. It is incubating under the Linux Foundation.

Join Viktor Farcic and Saim Safder as they discuss what GitOps is, why it's cool and how you can get started on a GitOps journey.

Join Viktor Farcic and Saim Safder on a discussion about GitOps, what it is, why it's cool, and how you can get started on a GitOps journey. -- Watch live at https://www.twitch.tv/orteliusos

Hosted by Saim Safder with guest speaker Brad McCoy discussing microservices implementation stories. Join Brad McCoy as he talks about getting started with microservices.

Brian Dawson joins the Ortelius team to discuss new trends in continuous delivery.

Join Brian Dawson and the Ortelius Podcast team for a discussion on Trends in DevOps -- Watch live at https://www.twitch.tv/orteliusos