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Alauda Developer Portal

An enterprise-grade, open developer platform base on backstage for building developer portals, containing a supported and opinionated framework.


Overview


Alauda Developer Portal is an enterprise-grade Internal Developer Portal, combined with Alauda Container Platform, Alauda Developer Portal allows platform engineering teams to offer software templates, pre-architected and supported approaches to maximize developer skills, ease onboarding, and increase development productivity, and focus on writing great code by reducing friction and frustration for development teams. Alauda Developer Portal also offers Software Templates to simplify the development process, which can  reduce friction and frustration for development teams, boosting their productivity and increasing an organization's competitive advantage.

Alauda Developer Portal and its associated plugins extend the upstream Backstage product by providing additional features such as integration with ACP, enterprise role-based access control (RBAC), and dynamic plugins.


Features


Enterprise Role-based access control (RBAC)

Alauda Developer Portal comes with unique capabilities to onboarding users to ensure they have access and privileges for the resources that matter to the team and to the systems at hand. A granular security permission ensures a robust access control in your organization.

Alauda supported and verified plugins

Alauda is constantly curating a set of plugins and ensuring the best experience on Alauda Developer Portal. The most popular technologies such as Runtime Resource, Tekton, GitOps, Harbor, can be integrated directly into Alauda Developer Portal and ensure a central location for your team to get access to all their systems and avoid the bookmark of death.

Scorecard

Scorecards play a pivotal role in ensuring software components are developed and utilized while adhering to organizational and industry standards. They provide a quantifiable measure of software maturity and adherence to best practices, thereby aiding developers in enhancing quality and assisting teams in making informed decisions regarding software adoption.

Dynamic plugins

Your development team can add, update, or remove plugins dynamically, eliminating the downtime associated with rebuilding or redeploying your Backstage environment. A unique feature on Alauda Developer Portal avoids your development team downtime and ensures they are continually delivering without any interruptions or disruptions for all your projects. As part of the plugin system they are validated to comply with standards and best practices around security recommendations to provide the runtime flexibility and quality assurance for a variety of integration needs.

Self-service, with guardrails for cloud-native development

Get supported approaches to building service or software components, without distraction of the details of the underlying technology. Your team can focus on crafting innovative code—and not the underlying infrastructure.

Fully integrated with ACP

Alauda Developer Portal is fully integrated with ACP using Operators and easy access to all technologies for application development such as service nesh, serverless, GitOps, distributed tracing, and many others. Sync users and groups form ACP, can easy login Alauda Developer Portal through ACP