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The self-hosted Backstage alternative

Backstage is an open-source developer portal platform that centralizes a software catalog, documentation (TechDocs), templates/scaffolding, and integrations with CI/CD and developer tools to standardize workflows and surface internal tooling for engineering teams.

Alternatives to Backstage

Open source architecture documentation tool to model and document domains, services, events, and schemas for event-driven and microservice systems.

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What replacing Backstage actually involves

Every option on this page is open source and free to run on your own hardware, so you own the data and there is no subscription to cancel. 1 of 1 shipped a commit in the last six months. In exchange you take on hosting, backups and updates yourself.

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