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World Congress 2026 Europe - Virtual Stage • Jun 30, 2026 • Session details

Backstage in Practice: Offloading Developer Operational Work Through Platform Self-Service

Um e Habiba

Stop drowning in ticket-driven infrastructure requests. Empower your developers with Backstage software templates. Transform manual provisioning bottlenecks into secure, zero-touch operational flows in minutes.

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#1 about 3 min

Introduction to Backstage and platform self-service

An overview of using the Backstage framework to offload operational work through internal developer portals.

#2 about 7 min

The bottlenecks of manual developer onboarding processes

How manual infrastructure updates lead to delayed validation, human error, and a degraded developer experience.

#3 about 3 min

Core features of the Backstage development framework

An introduction to Backstage capabilities including software templates, tech docs, software catalog, and plugins.

#4 about 6 min

Automating workflows with Backstage software templates

How software templates serve as blueprints to automate project setups, enforce standards, and reduce misconfigurations.

#5 about 6 min

Self-service development environments case study at Google

A real-world example of using Backstage templates to automate infrastructure provisioning for new development environments.

#6 about 6 min

The essential sections of a Backstage software template

The four essential sections of a template structure and how to use the Nunjucks templating language.

#7 about 9 min

Building a standardized Go repository blueprint template

Creating a form that prompts for parameters and scaffolds a Go project with built-in best practices.

#8 about 6 min

Automating container registry access workflows at Zeiss

A production use case offloading registry onboarding through a Backstage self-service form and pipeline automation.

Matching moments

3:53 min

Streamlining team workflows with the Backstage developer portal

Markus Eisele Markus Eisele · World Congress 2025

2:20 min

Distributing multi-agent templates via Backstage internal developer portals

Daniel Oh Daniel Oh · World Congress 2025

2:51 min

Adopting backstage for enterprise developer platform construction

Natale Vinto Natale Vinto · World Congress 2024

3:57 min

Scaling engineering teams using internal developer platforms

Moataz Nabil Moataz Nabil · World Congress 2026 Europe

2:37 min

Demonstrating developer platform administration and automated workspace provisioning

Romano Roth Romano Roth · World Congress 2025

1:55 min

Digital customer experience platforms and current development processes

Bastian Heilemann Bastian Heilemann +1 · World Congress 2026 Europe

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