[quest] (implementation) What architecture choices have been made in production deployment?

[cnygardtw]

What degrees of freedom do people want to have?

• Upgrade?
• Is it central deployment? Or does every domain have it's own instance?
  -- Central instance promotes single source of information
  -- Multiple instances present upgrade issues in terms of consistent versions of core Backstage code

Prefer using standard mechanisms in Backstage

• augmented YAML with custom properties to support use-case
• wrote front-end component to search / visualize taxonomy to find item via custom metadata
• design strategy to keep within the bounds of Backstage product rather than side functionality

Provide architecture guardrails to protect metadata

• Bot to review / lint yaml
• restrictions on changing names

Security?

• Access and entitlements for integrated data

Note: Get video link from Miguel C. demo