Migrate to Spotify Portal without disruption
Spotify Portal is the SaaS, Spotify-managed edition of Backstage, built and operated by the same engineers who created and open sourced Backstage.
Accelerate developers without managing infrastructure full-time
We handle the migration and the unglamorous operational work, so your platform team can stay focused on building new developer experiences and adopting the capabilities Spotify uses internally.
Backstage without the maintenance
Running Backstage at scale is hard: upgrades break, plugins drift, and security patches never stop. Spotify Portal handles it, so your team can focus on higher-impact work.
Upgrades on autopilot
No infrastructure to run or scale
Stable by design
How the industry builds like Spotify
“Having engineers on the ground actually be your supporters and say, 'Yeah, I adopted this and it has totally changed the game for me' — hearing those messages from two different angles and from two different perspectives is really huge.”
Brian Wolowicz
Director of Experience Design, Capital One
“I did an evaluation on the open-source Backstage before choosing Portal. We use Portal. We wanted to deliver the value of Backstage rather than Backstage itself. And that’s where Portal clicked in for us.”
2K Games
“This platform is allowing us to actually surface information that hasn’t been possible in the past, which is super exciting, all within the context of their applications and their components.”
Brian Wolowicz
Director of Experience Design, Capital One
Your platform, professionally operated
Spotify Portal is run in a dedicated single-tenant environment, so your plugins and integrations work as expected. We migrate what you already have into a supported setup — you keep your platform team, just not the burden of running the platform.
Custom plugins stay first-class
Portal Studio as your foundation
Same flexibility, fewer pitfalls
What the migration actually looks like
Our engineers do the heavy lifting across each step. Your team stays productive and can start focusing on what’s next, not the migration itself.
Identity & access (foundation)
01We set up SSO, teams, and users so Portal reflects your org from day one.
- IDP integration
- Team and ownership mapping
- Access validated early to avoid surprises
- 02
We migrate your Backstage catalog and connect it to your identity model.
- Services, APIs, components, data, and metadata preserved
- Ownership and relationships maintained
- Familiar experience the first time engineers log in
- 03
We port and validate the open-source plugins you already rely on.
- Plugin configs migrated from your OSS
- Integrations tested (CI/CD, SCM, cloud, observability, etc.)
- Gaps flagged early with clear remediation paths
Secure connectivity (Private Connect)
04Need access to tools behind your firewall? We set up Portal Private Connect.
- Deploy a secure, scoped agent
- Whitelist only the network access you explicitly approve
- Validate connectivity end-to-end
Custom plugin migration
05We migrate your custom plugins into Portal Studio.
- Plugins extracted from your existing Backstage repo
- Moved into your private Studio mono-repo
- Built, deployed, and validated in Portal
Clear ownership, no lock-in
Spotify Portal stays aligned with open source Backstage, so you always retain an exit path.
You own
- Plugins and source code
- Catalog and data
- Integrations and identity model
We own
- Infrastructure and scaling
- Upgrades and compatibility
- Security, reliability, and availability
What your team can focus on instead: “The Spotify Way”
While we handle migration and operations, your team can start adopting the same tools we use internally at Spotify without waiting for the move to finish.
AiKA
Soundcheck
Confidence Feature Flags
Insights
Ready to hand over the grunt work?
Let Spotify run the infrastructure so your team can focus on building “the Spotify way.”