For the people here that are confused as to what it does, to me it seems like it's a way of abstracting all the different infrastructure tooling that a large-scale company has.
Consider a team that wants to deploy something to the cloud in a company. They are probably engineers who aren't necessarily well-versed in all cloud tooling, yet they are required to know and understand Terraform, GCloud/AWS/Azure CLIs, Gitlab CI, Prometheus, various monitoring and alerting tools, Kubernetes, Docker, etc. And this is just to deploy their application. Once other resources come into play (databases, queueing, etc), they need even MORE knowledge.
A tool like Backstage allows developers to get a uniform overview of all their resources, regardless of how and where they are running. I'm not sure if it also allows the creation of new resources, but I guess that would be a fairly obvious direction to go in.
It won't solve the need to at some point know a bit more about the technical details about all the underlying tools, but it can allow teams to gradually learn about all this new tooling instead of having to know about everything upfront.
Borg, Kubernetes, et al? Abstracting complexity away is great, but at a certain level you just can't hide it, I think. Would love to be proven wrong, though.
Consider a team that wants to deploy something to the cloud in a company. They are probably engineers who aren't necessarily well-versed in all cloud tooling, yet they are required to know and understand Terraform, GCloud/AWS/Azure CLIs, Gitlab CI, Prometheus, various monitoring and alerting tools, Kubernetes, Docker, etc. And this is just to deploy their application. Once other resources come into play (databases, queueing, etc), they need even MORE knowledge.
A tool like Backstage allows developers to get a uniform overview of all their resources, regardless of how and where they are running. I'm not sure if it also allows the creation of new resources, but I guess that would be a fairly obvious direction to go in.
It won't solve the need to at some point know a bit more about the technical details about all the underlying tools, but it can allow teams to gradually learn about all this new tooling instead of having to know about everything upfront.