00:00:00 The magic of backstage.io and Internal Developer Portals
00:00:20 Introduction
00:01:29 My Spotify Story
00:02:30 Agenda for the tutorial
00:02:50 What is Backstage?
00:06:04 Setting up Backstage locally
00:12:31 Backstage folder structure
00:14:00 Running Backstage locally
00:16:50 Authentication (via GitHub and Custom Sign In Resolver)
00:52:40 Setting up Git Integration for Catalog YAML files
00:57:00 Software Catalog Data Model and Entity Kinds
00:59:46 Register a new Software Component and a User Group
01:08:00 Custom Backstage Sidebar
01:12:30 API Docs (OpenAPI using Swagger JSON)
01:23:10 TechDocs (powered by mkdocs)
01:31:35 Search in Backstage (Architecture Overview)
01:34:30 Installing Plugins in Backstage
01:39:30 Catalog Entity Page Customization
01:49:17 How to create a new Backstage plugin
02:13:38 Setting up Software Templates (Backstage Scaffolder) using Cookiecutter
02:48:28 Outro
02:48:58 My frustrations (Behind the scenes bloopers)

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This video can help a new engineer on Backstage to understand different parts of it.

- How to setup Backstage
- How to configure Backstage.io
- How to setup user authentication in Backstage
- How to setup TechDocs in Backstage
- How to setup Scaffolder in Backstage
- How to create an API Catalog
- How to customize Software Catalog
- How to customize Backstage
- Use Cookiecutter in Backstage for Software Templates
- Software Catalog Data Model

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