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This is the reference implementation of CNOE and its toolings on AWS
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How to add new Platform templates to this reference implementation. #34

Open elamaran11 opened 7 months ago

elamaran11 commented 7 months ago

Looks like the reference implementation on AWS deploys a docker image for backstage public.ecr.aws/cnoe-io/backstage:v0.0.2 which is prebaked. I would like to know how to add a new Platform Engineering templates at run time to the Backstage UI like these. Appreciate any documentation.

csantanapr commented 7 months ago

you can update the locations of templates by updating the app-config.yaml that comes from a configmap https://github.com/cnoe-io/reference-implementation-aws/blob/main/packages/backstage/dev/cm-backstage-config.yaml#L111-L115

you update the config-map wait a minute or 2 and new templates show up, make sure the template names are unique and not duplicates

elamaran11 commented 7 months ago

Thankyou, let me try this out.

elamaran11 commented 7 months ago

@csantanapr I can update the ConfigMap in backstage namespace for my demo runs but how do update or add new Platform Templates at production scale? Should i have redeploy if so how?

iron87 commented 7 months ago

@csantanapr I can update the ConfigMap in backstage namespace for my demo runs but how do update or add new Platform Templates at production scale? Should i have redeploy if so how?

You could update the Location (backstage.io/v1alpha1) file on the repo that contains the Backstage catalog, adding a new target item that contains the new Templates. You can find an example of a Location file here: https://github.com/awslabs/backstage-templates-on-eks/blob/main/catalog-info.yaml

elamaran11 commented 7 months ago

Sounds good @iron87 Closing the issue.