Closed marians closed 4 months ago
We have this PR in progress: https://github.com/giantswarm/backstage-catalog-importer/pull/155
Current todo
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if not prefixedgiantswarm
as a namespaceSome details should be left to an entity processor. For example, the default branch name, or whether the repository has a README.md file, are details I would like to avoid adding via backstage-catalog-importer, and instead use a processor.
These apps are missing the github repo URL:
@gusevda I just checked our internal users catalog https://github.com/giantswarm/github/blob/main/catalog/users.yaml and found that it indeed contains email adresses. Do you know whether they are required for authentication/authorization? Could access work without them?
@marians for authorization we use usernameMatchingUserEntityName
resolver, so the email should not be needed. I don't think there are other places where it can be required. Will check the authorization without emails in the catalog and get back to you.
@marians I tested authorization without email and it worked
Found more things to improve:
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One important building block for Backstage provided to customers is the catalog. The goal of this issue is to provide a common base catalog that can be published to all customers.
Roughly, the catalog should contain
We must decide whether the catalog data can be publicly accessible. If yes, this could help keep configuration simple. However, if required, the catalog should be pulled from a non-public place, using authentication.
The catalog data could also be modular and provided either publicly or privately, based on the sensitivity of the content.