September 2026
Intermediate
322 pages
7h 22m
English
Self-service is where platform architecture meets the Monday morning queue. A platform team can have GitOps, policy, tracing, model serving, and a developer portal, yet still provision every agent through a ticket and a series of hand-edited YAML files. That is not self-service. It is a ticketing system wearing a nicer shirt. Backstage software templates give us a practical way to collect a small amount of developer intent and turn it into a reviewed, repeatable repository contract.
In this chapter, we will define what an agent-service template accepts, what the platform supplies, and what the developer is not allowed to choose. We will build the Backstage template in small pieces, generate the Agent ...
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