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Are there other good options?

Edit: Thanks everyone!

We've just started using Atlassian Compass (https://www.atlassian.com/software/compass) for our software catalog, but it appears to be much less featured than Backstage. We're taking a look at replacing it with Backstage, and curious if anyone else has notes on the comparison.

(Shameless plug) – founder of https://www.cortex.io (YC W20) here! We build an off-the-shelf developer portal. Backstage is great if you have lots of time/very niche requirements, but most of our users need a system that "just works" to drive ownership/best practices without adding a ton of overhead

Just saw this video where a similar platform is introduced https://youtu.be/Abdp_BnRIx0 This is the website https://kustodian.io/

It has more features including onboarding, access control, etc

We didn't have enough time for testing, but there's also Clutch, coming from the Lyft team. (Checking right now I'm not able to see a "releases" page with versions and that stuff...)

https://clutch.sh/

First time seeing this, but reading the docs it looks more like a modern take on Rundeck[0]. A way to give developers one-click access to operational tasks. Rather than a service catalog and developer portal like Backstage.

[0] https://www.rundeck.com/

Might find some near previous mentions:

https://hn.algolia.com/?query=backstage.io%2F&sort=byDate&ty...

opslevel.com is worth checking out.

(Disclosure — I’m an investor.)

Thanks Andrew. (Disclosure: I'm a founder/CTO).

Backstage is super configurable, but requires that you build your own developer portal. That generally requires a dedicated team of people at your company to think about dev workflows to support, building plugins, plus hosting/maintenance.

At OpsLevel, we're focused on a much more turnkey solution. We want to get you up and running in under an hour, not weeks / months.

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