Documentation: Add guide for how to add an auth provider to the backend (#1145)

* Add guide for how to add a auth provider to the backend

* Move to new docs folder and small corrections

* Split oauth and non-oauth use-cases up and add more info about the verifyFunc

* Move summary to top and add note about non-oauth providers being experimental
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## Authentication
We chose [Passport](http://www.passportjs.org/) as authentication platform due to its comprehensive set of supported authentication [strategies](http://www.passportjs.org/packages/).
Read more about the [auth-backend](https://github.com/spotify/backstage/blob/master/plugins/auth-backend/README.md) and [how to add a new provider](https://github.com/spotify/backstage/blob/master/docs/auth/add-auth-provider.md)
## Documentation
- [Backstage Readme](https://github.com/spotify/backstage/blob/master/README.md)