Putting Backstage into action

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Adding components

There's multiple ways of adding new entities to the Backstage Catalog. INSERT EXPLANATION

Register an existing component

Animation of the Backstage of the steps of the create flow as described below

In the sidebar, choose create and click Register existing component
As URL use https://github.com/backstage/backstage/blob/master/catalog-info.yaml. This is used in our demo site catalog.

Screenshot of the Backstage Entity registration screen, asking for a URL to a yaml file in a repo

Hit Analyze and review the changes. Apply them if correct

Screenshot of the Backstage Entity registration screen, asking for a URL to a yaml file in a repo

You should receive a message that your entities have been added.
If you go back to Home, you should be able to find backstage. You should be able to click it and see the details of this newly imported entity.

Create a new component

In the sidebar, click on create and choose to create a website with the Example Node.js Template
Type in a name, for instance rocket-app
Select the group team-a which will own this new website, and go to the next step
For the location, leave it at github.com
As owner, enter your GitHub username
For the repository name, type rocket-app.
Review the details of this new service, and press Create if you want to deploy it like this.
As soon as every step is finished succesfull, you can take a look at your new service by clicking Open in catalog