Rename service catalog to software catalog, excluding blog posts
Signed-off-by: Joe Porpeglia <josephp@spotify.com>
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@@ -68,7 +68,7 @@ The base URL to the Kubernetes control plane. Can be found by using the
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##### `clusters.\*.name`
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A name to represent this cluster, this must be unique within the `clusters`
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array. Users will see this value in the Service Catalog Kubernetes plugin.
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array. Users will see this value in the Software Catalog Kubernetes plugin.
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##### `clusters.\*.authProvider`
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@@ -195,7 +195,7 @@ annotations:
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#### Labeling Kubernetes components
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In order for Kubernetes components to show up in the service catalog as a part
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In order for Kubernetes components to show up in the software catalog as a part
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of an entity, Kubernetes components themselves can have the following label:
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```yaml
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id: overview
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title: Kubernetes
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sidebar_label: Overview
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description: Monitoring Kubernetes based services with the service catalog
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description: Monitoring Kubernetes based services with the software catalog
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---
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Kubernetes in Backstage is a tool that's designed around the needs of service
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@@ -1,29 +1,29 @@
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---
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id: software-catalog-overview
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title: Backstage Service Catalog (alpha)
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title: Backstage Software Catalog (alpha)
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sidebar_label: Overview
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# prettier-ignore
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description: The Backstage Service Catalog — actually, a software catalog, since it includes more than just services
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description: The Backstage Software Catalog
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---
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## What is a Service Catalog?
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## What is a Software Catalog?
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The Backstage Service Catalog — actually, a software catalog, since it includes
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The Backstage Software Catalog — actually, a software catalog, since it includes
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more than just services — is a centralized system that keeps track of ownership
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and metadata for all the software in your ecosystem (services, websites,
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libraries, data pipelines, etc). The catalog is built around the concept of
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[metadata YAML files](descriptor-format.md) stored together with the code, which
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are then harvested and visualized in Backstage.
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## How it works
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Backstage and the Backstage Service Catalog make it easy for one team to manage
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Backstage and the Backstage Software Catalog make it easy for one team to manage
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10 services — and makes it possible for your company to manage thousands of
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them.
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More specifically, the Service Catalog enables two main use-cases:
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More specifically, the Software Catalog enables two main use-cases:
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1. Helping teams manage and maintain the software they own. Teams get a uniform
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view of all their software; services, libraries, websites, ML models — you
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@@ -37,11 +37,11 @@ The Software Catalog is available to browse at `/catalog`. If you've followed
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[Getting Started with Backstage](../../getting-started), you should be able to
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browse the catalog at `http://localhost:3000`.
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## Adding components to the catalog
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The source of truth for the components in your service catalog are
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The source of truth for the components in your software catalog are
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[metadata YAML files](descriptor-format.md) stored in source control (GitHub,
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GitHub Enterprise, GitLab, ...).
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@@ -104,11 +104,11 @@ them, and do so using their normal Git workflow.
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Once the change has been merged, Backstage will automatically show the updated
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metadata in the service catalog after a short while.
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metadata in the software catalog after a short while.
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## Finding software in the catalog
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By default the service catalog shows components owned by the team of the logged
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By default the software catalog shows components owned by the team of the logged
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in user. But you can also switch to _All_ to see all the components across your
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company's software ecosystem. Basic inline _search_ and _column filtering_ makes
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it easy to browse a big set of components.
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@@ -124,7 +124,7 @@ _starring_ of components:
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## Integrated tooling through plugins
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The service catalog is a great way to organize the infrastructure tools you use
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The software catalog is a great way to organize the infrastructure tools you use
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to manage the software. This is how Backstage creates one developer portal for
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all your tools. Rather than asking teams to jump between different
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infrastructure UIs (and incurring additional cognitive overhead each time they
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@@ -83,7 +83,7 @@ spec:
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[Template Entity](../software-catalog/descriptor-format.md#kind-template)
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contains more information about the required fields.
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Once we have a `template.yaml` ready, we can then add it to the service catalog
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Once we have a `template.yaml` ready, we can then add it to the software catalog
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for use by the scaffolder.
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You can add the template files to the catalog through
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@@ -4,8 +4,8 @@ title: Writing Templates
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description: Details around creating your own custom Software Templates
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---
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Templates are stored in the **Service Catalog** under a kind `Template`. You can
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create your own templates with a small `yaml` definition which describes the
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Templates are stored in the **Software Catalog** under a kind `Template`. You
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can create your own templates with a small `yaml` definition which describes the
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template and it's metadata, along with some input variables that your template
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will need, and then a list of actions which are then executed by the scaffolding
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service.
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