Prerequisites
To work through this lab, you will need the following prerequisites, either on your machine or on a cloud-based virtual machine:
- A POSIX-compatible shell (bash, zsh). Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) should work fine
- Git CLI installed
- A Kubernetes cluster (ideally a managed offering with external connectivity)
- A NodeJS Runtime installed (see https://backstage.io/docs/getting-started/#prerequisites)
- As you’re dealing with lots of code, an IDE (such as VS Code) is highly recommended
- A GitHub account (and in the best case an organization where you can create repositories)
- Some repositories in your GitHub account to work with Backstage
- One for the Backstage application itself (
backstage) - One for your Configurations (
backstage-config), you can fork ours from https://github.com/tsclabs-eu/lab-backstage-basics
- One for the Backstage application itself (
This should be enough to start with this Lab.