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For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
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# Enable Developers on SAP BTP with Terraform, GitHub Actions and Backstage
apiVersion: scaffolder.backstage.io/v1beta3 # https://backstage.io/docs/features/software-catalog/descriptor-format#kind-template kind: Template metadata: name: sample-btpsubaccount-remote-template title: Remote Template for SAP BTP Subaccount Setup description: A remote template that creates a basic SAP BTP Subaccount setup tags: - sap - btp - basic - javascript spec: owner: user:guest type: service
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The 2024 Web Hosting Report
It’s also well understood that having a k8s cluster is not enough to make developers able to host their services - you need a devops team to work with them, using tools like delivery pipelines, Helm, kustomize, infra as code, service mesh, ingress, secrets management, key management - the list goes on! Developer Portals like Backstage, Port and Cortex have started to emerge to help manage some of this complexity.
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Ask HN: How do you organize software documentation at work?
We use Confluence and markdown files in GitHub. I think we are moving a lot of our docs to Backstage [0] soon.
One process that ends up being really valuable for documentation purposes is our "Architecture Review Documents". This is a standard document that team leads fill out before starting work on a new Saga/Epic/Feature/whatever. It includes the scope and business value of a new feature or large block of work, high level technical architecture of implementation, the impact on existing database schemas and service APIs, etc. This document is presented in a meeting with technical leadership in our organization who deep dive on the topic and explore potential pitfalls in the plan.
The document and recording of that meeting live on forever, and this information is very useful when getting acquainted with a certain part of our product/codebase. You are able to read and hear clearly the intention of a certain service or module, and you can identify several relevant points of contact to ask questions to.
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Tools used by the top 1% of Platform Engineers and their Commercial Open Source Alternatives
Check the Backstage repo on GitHub
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10 open source tools that platform, SRE and DevOps engineers should consider in 2024.
Backstage - An open platform for building developer portals. [Internal Developer Portal]
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Champion Building - How to successfully adopt a developer tool
So you've just bought a new platform tool? Maybe it's Hashicorp Vault? Snyk? Backstage? You’re excited about all of the developer experience, security and other benefits you're about to unleash on your company—right? But wait…
- Terraform Self-Service platform / Internal Developer Platform solutions
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Event-Driven Architecture 101
For example, without investment, visibility into system behavior as a whole can be much more difficult in an event-driven system. Investing in something like Open Telemetry and a service catalog is a good idea. Getting started with these things are relatively simple, but if you want to store your traces somewhere that are searchable, you are going to have to either pay for a SaaS tool that ingests them or you are going to have to run and maintain an open source tool capable of this such as Jaeger. For service cataloging, Backstage is becoming a very popular option. Depending on the capabilities and the capacity of your engineering team, this might be a good option and many companies do have platform teams that provide tooling such as this. With the average salary of a platform Engineer being ~$144k, companies should think carefully on whether the benefits of an EDA are going to outweigh the cost. We will dig deeper into this in part 2 and 3 of the series.
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Tips and tricks for Backstage Software Templates
I'm a big fan of Backstage.
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Happy and Productive Engineers with Backstage
There are already a number of vendors providing IDP solutions, but we know that our industry is mainly fueled by community efforts. It's no different with IDPs - there's a great OSS project that has become the de-facto industry standard for creating a portal! I'm talking about Backstage - the framework for building delivery (developer) portals. It was created at Spotify to improve the collaboration inside the engineering department and then open-sourced - so now we all can benefit from it!
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NetBox.dev: the source of truth for everything on your network
gh repo is a bit better on details, and has screenshots: https://github.com/netbox-community/netbox
There is a demo instance here: https://demo.netbox.dev/
It's frontend uses a JS framework though [1], and transpiles it to the static directory. It's HTMX though, which is refreshing to see.
[1] https://github.com/netbox-community/netbox/tree/develop/netb...
"The site" is actually just their blog. The github repo at https://github.com/netbox-community/netbox is more like the real homepage and has a good presentation.
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Got my hands on a UniFi system, rack building software?
Take a look at netbox. https://netbox.dev/
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Shelf – open-source asset management software
IT wise, It's been a fair few years since I've been in a department that does asset management, we used to use GLPI with it's warts and all, which got replace with https://github.com/netbox-community/netbox
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NetBox v3.5.5 is Now Available!
NetBox Release v3.5.5 is now live (as of July 6, 2023)!
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Modeling Accedian Devices
That being said you are not out of luck! Here are a few things you can take a look at that might help you reach your goal: - You can explore the netbox.dev plugins page to see if any existing plugins exist that solve your issue - You could also check if the idea is already proposed, or submit your own plugin idea here. - Another useful place to check is the NetBox Discussions Board on GitHub - Along with the NetDev Slack which has maintainers and community members active all the time. - Lastly, if you feel like this should be a core feature and have already submitted an idea to the discussions board, feel free to create a feature request (FR) to the NetBox Issues Board. We suggest creating a discussion first and seeing if there is maintainer/community acceptance before submitting a FR.
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web-managed (enterprise-ish) DHCP server
Thats what I'mk looking into at the moment. There seems to be a great integration with netbox and nautobot. Both seem like an excellent fit for an IPAM + DHCP solution.
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Mixed Vendor Network Monitoring and Management
- NMS / NPM: NetXMS, Zabbix, LibreNMS, PRTG - NCM, updates, automation: Unimus - IaC / automation: Ansible - DCIM / IPAM: NetBox - IPAM / DDI: Infoblox
What are some alternatives?
nautobot - Network Source of Truth & Network Automation Platform
phpIPAM - phpipam development repository
netbox-topology-views - A netbox plugin that draws topology views
cookiecutter - A cross-platform command-line utility that creates projects from cookiecutters (project templates), e.g. Python package projects, C projects.
atlantis - Terraform Pull Request Automation
RackTables - RackTables current development repository
api-management-developer-portal - Developer portal provided by the Azure API Management service.
netbox-docker - 🐳 Docker Image of NetBox
C4-PlantUML - C4-PlantUML combines the benefits of PlantUML and the C4 model for providing a simple way of describing and communicate software architectures
Snipe IT - A free open source IT asset/license management system
The Foreman - The new and improved Foreman website.
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