blameless Plugin

Welcome to the blameless backstage backend plugin!

Overview

Backstage Backend Sync Plugin is a backend plugin designed specifically for Blameless clients who need to synchronize their entities effortlessly. With this plugin, clients can seamlessly sync their entities with blameless on a periodic interval, ensuring consistency and accuracy.

Installation

To install the Blameless backstage plugin. run the following command in the root of your backstage app You can install MyNpmPackage via yarn:

  yarn --cwd packages/backend add @blamelesshq/blameless-backstage app

Requirments

To utilize the Blameless plugin, please ensure that the following config are added to you config yaml file:

blameless:
  authKey: your blameless-key # xxxxxxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxxxxxxxxxx
  baseUrl: your blameless base url # https://example.blameless.com
  interval: 30 # in minutes
  kinds:
    - Component

Usage

To use the plugin add the following code to your packages/backend/src/index.ts

For the new Backend system

// packages/backend/src/index.ts

import { createBackend } from '@backstage/backend-defaults';

const backend = createBackend();
backend.add(import('@backstage/plugin-app-backend/alpha'));
backend.add(import('@backstage/plugin-catalog-backend/alpha'));
backend.add(import('@backstage/plugin-scaffolder-backend/alpha'));
backend.add(
  import('@backstage/plugin-catalog-backend-module-scaffolder-entity-model'),
);
... 
backend.add(import('@blamelesshq/blameless-backstage')); //<<-- Add the blameless plugin 
....

For the old Backend system

Create new file under the plugins call it blameless

// packages/backend/src/plugins/blameless.ts
import {createRouter} from '@blamelesshq/blameless-backstage';
import { Router } from 'express';
import { PluginEnvironment } from '../types';

export default async function createPlugin(
  env: PluginEnvironment,
): Promise<Router> {
  // Here is where you will add all of the required initialization code that
  // your backend plugin needs to be able to start!

  // The env contains a lot of goodies, but our router currently only
  // needs a logger
  return await createRouter({
    logger: env.logger,
  });
}

Add the following the index file

// packages/backend/src/index.ts
import blameless from './plugins/blameless';

...
const blamelessEnv = useHotMemoize(module, () => createEnv('blameless'));

....
apiRouter.use('/blameless', await blameless(blamelessEnv));