Developing Portal plugins - Spotify for Backstage

Portal, just like the open-source Backstage project it’s built on, is highly customizable through plugins. This allows you to tailor the application to your company’s specific needs and infrastructure tools. For example, extending Portal with plugins can allow you to:

Connect & sync data from external sources
Customize the core features of Portal
Add special fields or actions to software templates

Most plugins from the Backstage community can be used in Portal. You can also create your own plugins for your Portal instance. This article covers how to create such custom plugins, with examples for specific use cases.

Get started

Create a new Studio workspace
Use Studio with an existing workspace
Develop and test plugins in Portal
Migrate an existing plugin to Portal

Build a plugin

Plugin use cases
Add a custom scaffolder action to software templates
Connect & sync software catalog to an external source
[External] Connect & sync Soundcheck to an external source
[External] Connect & sync search to an external source (Confluence)

Publishing plugins

Publish a plugin privately
Publish a plugin as an Authorized Portal Partner

​Get started

​Build a plugin

​Publishing plugins

​See also

Get started

Build a plugin

Publishing plugins

See also