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CBA · 2 days (14 h)
CBA Exam Preparation — Certified Backstage Associate
Backstage in practice: service catalog, templates, and TechDocs for a developer portal that actually gets used, all the way to the CBA exam.
Objectives
- Pass the CBA multiple-choice exam
- Model your organization in the catalog: systems, components, APIs
- Create software templates that standardize new projects
- Deploy and configure a maintainable Backstage instance
Audience
Platform teams deploying — or evaluating — Backstage as an internal developer portal.
Prerequisites
- TypeScript/Node.js notions for the configuration part
- Kubernetes experience helps for the deployment
Program
Backstage fundamentals
- The developer portal: promise and limits
- Architecture: app, backend, plugins
The catalog
- Entities, ownership, and relations
- catalog-info.yaml and automatic discovery
Templates and TechDocs
- Software templates: scaffolder and actions
- Documentation as code with TechDocs
Deployment, and mock exam
- Configuration, authentication, and database
- Plugins: install, configure, maintain
- Annotated mock multiple-choice test
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