--- id: roadmap title: Roadmap description: Roadmap of Backstage --- ## The Backstage Roadmap Backstage is currently under rapid development. This page details the project’s public roadmap, the result of ongoing collaboration between the core maintainers and the broader Backstage community. The Backstage roadmap lays out both [“what’s next”](#whats-next) and [“future work”](#future-work). With "next" we mean features planned for release within the ongoing quarter from January through March 2022. With "future" we mean features in the radar, but not yet scheduled. | [What's next](#whats-next) | [Future work](#future-work) | | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | | [Backstage 1.0 (and following versions)](#backstage-10-and-following-versions)
[Backstage Security Audit](#backstage-security-audit)
[Moving to Incubation in CNCF](#moving-to-incubation-in-cncf) | Backend Services
Security Plan (and Strategy)
TechDocs Addon framework
Composable Homepage 1.0
GraphQL
Telemetry
Improved UX design | The long-term roadmap (12 - 36 months) is not detailed in the public roadmap. Third-party contributions are also not currently included in the roadmap. Let us know about any ongoing developments and we’re happy to include them here as well. ## What’s next The feature set below is planned for the ongoing quarter, and grouped by theme. The list order doesn’t necessarily reflect priority, and the development/release cycle will vary based on maintainer schedules. ### Backstage 1.0 (and following versions) During the first quarter of 2022, we plan to finalize and release version 1.0 of the Backstage platform (which includes Core, [Catalog](https://backstage.io/docs/features/software-catalog/software-catalog-overview), [Scaffolder](https://backstage.io/docs/features/software-templates/software-templates-index) and [TechDocs](https://backstage.io/docs/features/techdocs/techdocs-overview)). Included as part of this milestone: - Deciding on the cadence of minor/weekly/daily releases to provide clarity on the frequency and expectations for future versions of the platform and its defining modules. - Establish the support model to set the expectations from the adopters in their respective use cases. ### Backstage Security Audit This initiative is the first of a broader Security Strategy for Backstage. The purpose of the Security Audit is to involve third-party companies in auditing the platform and highlighting potential vulnerabilities. The benefit for the adopters is clear: We want Backstage to be as secure as possible, and we want to make it reliable through a specific initiative. This initiative in particular is done together, and with the support of, the [Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF)](https://www.cncf.io/). ### Moving to Incubation in CNCF The progress of the request can be seen [here](https://github.com/cncf/toc/pull/717). ## Future work The following feature list doesn’t represent a commitment to develop, and the list order doesn’t reflect any priority or importance, but these features are on the maintainers’ radar, with clear interest expressed by the community. - **Backend Services:** To better scale and maintain the Backstage instances, a backend layer of services is planned to be introduced as part of the software architecture. This layer of backend services will help in decoupling the various modules (e.g. Catalog and Scaffolder) from the frontend experience. - **Security Plan (and Strategy):** The purpose of the Security Strategy is to move another step along the path to maturing the platform, setting the expectations of any adopters from a security standpoint. - **Search 1.0:** Fix the few remaining issues to get Backstage Search platform up to 1.0 ([here](https://github.com/backstage/backstage/milestone/27) and [here](https://github.com/backstage/backstage/milestone/28)). - **TechDocs Addon framework and Addons:** Addons are TechDocs features that are added on top of the base docs like code experience. An example would be a feature that showed comments on the page. We plan to add an Addon framework and open source a selection of the Addons that we use internally at Spotify. Further Addons can then be added by the Community. - **Composable Homepage 1.0:** Driving this to 1.0 by adding some composable components. - **[GraphQL](https://graphql.org/) support:** Introduce the ability to query Backstage backend services with a standard query language for APIs. - **Telemetry:** To efficiently generate logging and metrics in such a way that adopters can get insights so that Backstage can be monitored and improved. - **Improved UX design:** Provide a better Backstage user experience through visual guidelines and templates, especially navigation across plug-ins and portal functionalities. ## How to influence the roadmap As we evolve Backstage, we want you to contribute actively in the journey to define the most effective developer experience in the world. A roadmap is only useful if it captures real needs. If you have success stories, feedback, or ideas, we want to hear from you! If you plan to work (or are already working) on a new or existing feature, please let us know, so that we can update the roadmap accordingly. We are also happy to share knowledge and context that will help your feature land successfully. You can also head over to the [CONTRIBUTING](https://github.com/backstage/backstage/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md) guidelines to get started. If you have specific questions about the roadmap, please create an [issue](https://github.com/backstage/backstage/issues/new/choose), ping us on [Discord](https://discord.gg/qxsEfa8Vq8), or [book time](http://calendly.com/spotify-backstage) with the Spotify team. ## Completed milestones Read more about the completed (and released) features for reference. - [[Search] ElasticSearch integration](https://backstage.io/docs/features/search/search-engines#elasticsearch) - [[Search] TechDocs search capabilities](https://backstage.io/docs/features/search/how-to-guides#how-to-index-techdocs-documents) - [TechDocs Beta](https://backstage.spotify.com/blog/product-updates/techdocs-beta-has-landed) - [[Home] Composable homepage](https://github.com/backstage/backstage/milestone/34) - [[Search] Out-of-the-Box Implementation (Alpha)](https://github.com/backstage/backstage/milestone/26) - [Deploy a product demo at `demo.backstage.io`](https://demo.backstage.io) - [Kubernetes plugin - v1](https://github.com/backstage/backstage/tree/master/plugins/kubernetes) - [Helm charts](https://github.com/backstage/backstage/tree/master/contrib/chart/backstage) - [Backstage Design System 💅](https://backstage.io/blog/2020/09/30/backstage-design-system) - [Cost Insights plugin 💸](https://engineering.atspotify.com/2020/09/29/managing-clouds-from-the-ground-up-cost-engineering-at-spotify/) - [Donate Backstage to the CNCF 🎉](https://backstage.io/blog/2020/09/23/backstage-cncf-sandbox) - [TechDocs v1](https://backstage.io/blog/2020/09/08/announcing-tech-docs) - [Plugin marketplace](https://backstage.io/plugins) - [Improved and move documentation to backstage.io](https://backstage.io/docs/overview/what-is-backstage) - [Backstage Software Catalog (alpha)](https://backstage.io/blog/2020/06/22/backstage-service-catalog-alpha) - [Backstage Software Templates (alpha)](https://backstage.io/blog/2020/08/05/announcing-backstage-software-templates) - [Make it possible to add custom auth providers](https://backstage.io/blog/2020/07/01/how-to-enable-authentication-in-backstage-using-passport) - [TechDocs v0](https://github.com/backstage/backstage/milestone/15) - CI plugins: CircleCI, Jenkins, GitHub Actions and TravisCI - [Service API documentation](https://github.com/backstage/backstage/pull/1737) - Backstage Software Catalog can read from: GitHub, GitLab, [Bitbucket](https://github.com/backstage/backstage/pull/1938) - Support auth providers: Google, Okta, GitHub, GitLab, [auth0](https://github.com/backstage/backstage/pull/1611), [AWS](https://github.com/backstage/backstage/pull/1990) - [Donate Backstage to the CNCF 🎉](https://backstage.io/blog/2020/09/23/backstage-cncf-sandbox) - [TechDocs v1](https://backstage.io/blog/2020/09/08/announcing-tech-docs) - [Plugin marketplace](https://backstage.io/plugins) - [Improved and move documentation to backstage.io](https://backstage.io/docs/overview/what-is-backstage) - [Backstage Software Catalog (alpha)](https://backstage.io/blog/2020/06/22/backstage-service-catalog-alpha) - [Backstage Software Templates (beta)](https://backstage.io/blog/2021/07/26/software-templates-are-now-in-beta) - [Make it possible to add custom auth providers](https://backstage.io/blog/2020/07/01/how-to-enable-authentication-in-backstage-using-passport) - [TechDocs v0](https://github.com/backstage/backstage/milestone/15) - CI plugins: CircleCI, Jenkins, GitHub Actions and TravisCI - [Service API documentation](https://github.com/backstage/backstage/pull/1737) - Backstage Software Catalog can read from: GitHub, GitLab, [Bitbucket](https://github.com/backstage/backstage/pull/1938) - Support auth providers: Google, Okta, GitHub, GitLab, [auth0](https://github.com/backstage/backstage/pull/1611), [AWS](https://github.com/backstage/backstage/pull/1990)