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Resourcely and Backstage

Resourcely is singularly focused on provisioning and managing configuration. Backstage is a developer portal with extensive plugin support.

Resourcely is a configuration platform for your entire cloud: build advanced configuration patterns with embedded support for all cloud providers, safeguard your cloud with policy-as-code, and remediate vulnerabilities easily.

Backstage’s focus is a unified developer portal that enables users to see all software and applications in a catalog. Plugins can add data such as software vulnerabilities, documentation, and on-call schedules. Backstage has basic templating support that supports types such as strings and enums.

How Resourcely and Backstage compare

Summary
Resourcely
Backstage
Goal
Full configuration platform for scaling infrastructure - efficiently and safely building cloud resources
Software catalog and plugin framework with a focus on metadata - who owns what, and what exists
Software Catalog
Partial
Templates
Resourcely Blueprints
Backstage Software Catalog
Guardrails

X

Remediation

X

Deep Dive
Blueprints
Software Templates
Built for...
Paved roads for configuring infrastructure as code
General purpose software dev templates
Configurable templating language
TFT
YAML
Pre-built best practice templates
Thousands
Limited
Create pull requests
Defaults/descriptions
Enum values
Reusable
Inline only
Plugins to ingest and show data

X

Smart suggestions and linking between resources

X

Integrated guardrails

X

Context-dependent configuration

X

Linkable templates
Templates can't be linked together
Input option knowledge graph

X

Integrate Resourcely with Backstage

Combine the Backstage software catalog and discoverability with faster and safer infrastructure configuration.

Embed Backstage and Resourcely

Resourcely can be your catalog source of truth for infrastructure with Backstage embedded, or it can be a plugin for Backstage

Complement Backstage with a focus on infrastructure

Resourcely's powerful templating language let you customize a platform for your organization, without requiring developers to be IaC experts

Developers shouldn't have to be cloud infrastructure experts

With Resourcely, they don't have to be

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