backstage-helm-chart

This is a Helm chart repo to deploy backsage. Deploy Backstage in 5 minutes.

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How to deploy

1. Deploy PG using CNPG
2. Deploy Backstage

Deploy CNPG

• Deploy cnpg

helm repo add cnpg https://cloudnative-pg.github.io/charts
helm repo update
helm upgrade --install cnpg cnpg/cloudnative-pg --namespace cnpg-system --create-namespace 

• Create the first DB

kubectl apply -f - << EOF
---
apiVersion: v1
kind: Namespace
metadata:
  name: backstage
---
apiVersion: v1
kind: Secret
type: kubernetes.io/basic-auth
metadata:
  name: app-secret
  namespace: backstage
data:
  username: YXBw
  password: cGFzc3dvcmQ=
---
apiVersion: postgresql.cnpg.io/v1
kind: Cluster
metadata:
  name: backstage
  namespace: backstage
spec:
  instances: 1
  primaryUpdateStrategy: unsupervised
  storage:
    size: 1Gi
  bootstrap:
    initdb:
      secret:
        name: app-secret
      postInitSQL:
        - ALTER ROLE app CREATEDB
EOF

Deploy Backstage

• Generate GH access token here

The Required Permissions:

Reading software components:
- repo

Reading organization data:
- read:org
- read:user
- user:email

Publishing software templates:
- repo
- workflow (if templates include GitHub workflows)

• Export your token to be used by the chart

export GH_TOKEN=YOUR-TOKEN

• Install the chart using your personal access token

helm repo add platformers-community http://helm.platformers.community/
helm repo update
helm upgrade --install backstage platformers-community/backstage -n backstage --set github.accessToken=${GH_TOKEN}

If you have to enforce HTTPS, use this Helm repo:

helm repo add platformers-community https://platformerscommunity.github.io/backstage-helm-chart/

Go to Backstage UI

open http://127.0.0.1:7007
kubectl port-forward svc/backstage -n backstage 7007:7007