Platform Engineering Series | EP 4: How to Deploy Backstage? The Hard Way

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[@VibhavBobde]

This was very helpful, thanks for sharing this in depth guide !

[@barbarez3]

Really good job mr. Good Guy! I am starting as a junior DevOps Engineer with minimum experience and was thrown into Backstage never working with it. I find this series extremely helpful and I hope you will keep posting more and more videos!! for example securing your app with SSL or pretty much enything. Just a small detail, though it might be silly for others. For the next videos if your camera stops working or you do not record a certain part of tutorial, please get back to it. (like here when you skip a detailed part with github tokens) tho probably its better for me to explore and try to figure it out. anyways, keep it up, great videos, you earned yourself a sub

[@the_good_guy]

Thank you very much and good luck with your first job! Thank you for the feedback! I will try to be more specific on any part of the tutorial. I will continue to create videos, and I hope that you will find them useful along the way.

[@pablue]

Fantástica abordagem. Realmente entregou valor para mim. Agora tenho material para estudar por um bom tempo... Espero poder ver mais vídeos como esse... Quem sabe uma POC de um SRE rsrsrs

[@the_good_guy]

Thank you!!!!

[@pablue]

@@the_good_guy Rodou tudo 100% na máquina local. Porém, ao tentar rodar dentro do Github Codespaces, não consegui fazer o forward de porta para o nosso cluster. Você já pensou nessa abordagem?

[@pablue]

Atualizando: @@the_good_guy Deu tudo certo...

[@andreykf]

@@pablue eai blz? tu conseguiu ver os logs do pod no final?

[@pablue]

@@andreykf funcionou com algumas atualizações. Tem o repositório publicado se você quiser.

[@pechan2]

Is it docker necesary? Or can I just go localhost only

[@MaheswaraReddyY]

The entire video series is really nice. We don't have better and concise videos in the YT. Is there any plan to come up with a video on one end to end project with the YAML templates, Catalog graph??

[@the_good_guy]

I will make more videos, and your ideas added to the list! I haven't decided which yet.

[@o4ennedobr868]

Very helpful! And could you provide your zsh shell prompt variable?

[@the_good_guy]

Thank you! I use zsh, powerlevel10k & fig. I can send you my configuration, send me an email to [e-mail].

[@burakaydn9454]

Hi, Is it neccessary to checkout source code? I'm confused because you run "npx @backstage/create-app" command and this command creates neccessary files for docker build am I wrong?

[@the_good_guy]

I checked the workshop for a specific version, if there will be a breaking change the checkout version will work. The app creation command creates the Dockerfile as you mentioned - you are right.

[@burakaydn9454]

@@the_good_guy Thanks for the reply . My question is the npx package created from the source code you checked out or from somewhere different? Becase I can run npx create package without checking out source code. What's the difference?

[@ricardsonwilliams]

nice! on my tests the k8s plugin not showing, maybe another video with more examples.

[@the_good_guy]

Hi! Do you get an error message? If you do, what is it? I've tested it recently and it worked 😅

[@shivamagrawal4307]

Hi, Thanks for the video! I am getting this error in the backstage pod after following the steps - Error: Failed to instantiate service 'core.tokenManager' for 'search' because the factory function threw an error, Error: Failed to instantiate service 'core.tokenManager' because createRootContext threw an error, Error: You must configure at least one key in backend.auth.keys for production. I have added that key to the config files, and also rebuild the image, still hitting the issue. Can you help me here?

[@the_good_guy]

H,i have you managed to fix it?

[@AshPillai-wf3mq]

I am facing the same issue :( @shivam or @the_good_guy have yall been able to find any fix for this?

[@manishmaharjann]

can you show to deploy in cloud kubernetes cluster rather than in local cluster ?

[@the_good_guy]

We can do it but it's the same thing as you need to upload your image to a public registry and pull it from there

[@der-lotse]

If something need the version 1 for something as central as yarn, then you might consider to not using it :)

[@guymenahem2180]

☺️ The migration process is in progress

[@the_good_guy]

You can find more information here - backstage.io/docs/tutorials/yarn-migration/

[@andreykf]

Thank you very much for this tutorial! But at the end, I can not see the pods logs using kubernetes plugin. Show this error: Proxy request failed with 500 Internal Server Error, {"error":{"name":"Error","message":"Cluster 'kind-local' request error; caused by Error: connect ECONNREFUSED ::1:80","cause":{"errno":-111,"code":"ECONNREFUSED","syscall":"connect","address":"::1","port":80,"name":"Error","message":"connect ECONNREFUSED ::1:80","stack":"Error: connect ECONNREFUSED ::1:80 at TCPConnectWrap.afterConnect [as oncomplete] (node:net:1555:16)"},"level":"error"},"request":{"method":"GET","url":"/api/kubernetes/proxy/api/v1/namespaces/default/pods/users-api-nginx-589dd64f99-589fn/log?container=nginx"},"response":{"statusCode":500}} I tried add this clusterrole, but no success: github.com/backstage/backstage/blob/master/docs/features/kubernetes/configuration.md#role-based-access-control

[@the_good_guy]

First of all, it means that you reach the end of the guide and everything is running. Can you check the kube-api logs as well? It seems like the connection refused for some reason Sorry for taking me a little bit long to reply