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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

  1. TypeScript/Node.js notions for the configuration part
  2. 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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