Warning: This repository is a playground, a sketch to seek possible UI/UX when interacting with Envoy deployments managed via Gateway API. This contains full of ugly hacks, merely to show the potentials.

1. A local Kubernetes cluster. We use: localKubectlProxy as the kubernetes.clusterLocatorMethods[0].type. Please follow the instructions here to bring up a local cluster.
2. make. make is usually reachable on macOS (via Xcode or Command Line Tools) and GNU/Linux distributions (via package managers).
3. (optional) node. The v16.18.0 LTS version is recommended. Note: Make sure to use x64 architecture, since some of the modules still x64-only.
4. (optional) yarn classic.

Note: We supply a Makefile that downloads all of the required tools.

Warning: Some of the commands takes a while, be patient.

After you have a running cluster with Envoy Gateway installed, you need to build the Backstage App, you can run the following command:

make build

After that, the app will be created in ./dist directory. To run the app:

make run

Note: make build run works fine too!

Then, when the log lines show similar to the following,

2022-10-23T02:45:10.261Z backstage info Listening on :7007

you can open a browser by pointing it to http://localhost:7007.

• plugins/kubernetes/* Apache License Version 2.0 Copyright 2020 The Backstage Authors.
• * Apache License Version 2.0 Copyright 2020 Tetrate.io, Inc.