Simplified onboarding
Simplify developer onboarding by providing common templates—or accelerators—to easily install the software and configuration needed for any project in their own development environment.
VMware Tanzu Developer Portal
Empower your developers and increase productivity with enterprise-grade Backstage
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Consistency
Develop and enforce consistent development practices. Compliance and security are essential, but developers need freedom of choice. Tanzu Developer Portal enables choice with guardrails to ensure everyone’s needs are met.
Engagement
Create engagement and encourage a culture of sharing. Tanzu Developer Portal lets developers, enterprise architects, security operations, and others share technologies and best practices to encourage conversation and alignment.
Tanzu Developer Portal is built with Spotify's Backstage, the leading open source developer portal framework. Backstage provides service discoverability through a rich and comprehensive software catalog you control, documentation-as-code to encourage knowledge sharing and reduce confusion, platform visibility to view runtime resources and their states, and a highly pluggable architecture.
Why Tanzu Developer Portal
Tanzu Developer Portal boosts productivity by providing the framework to create new app projects quickly.
Golden Paths to Production
Deliver consistent and tested development processes and tools to your entire organization. By building these “golden paths” to production, you can accelerate application delivery while avoiding compliance and operational surprises.
Community and custom plugins
Extend Tanzu Developer Portal by building your own plugins or by adding plugins from the Backstage community.
Enterprise support and functionality
Get support for enterprise needs such as role-based access control, multi-cluster runtime resource visibility, and automatic API registration for better visibility and reuse of programming APIs.
Automated lifecycle management
Handle your lifecycle management with Tanzu toolchains, including one-line commands to install or upgrade your developer portal.
Use Cases
Backstage's software catalog and documentation-as-code
Create a catalog of your software assets and get your documentation closer to your catalog.
Backstage with Enterprise support
Tanzu Developer Portal is an enterprise-grade developer portal built on Backstage and part of Tanzu Application Platform.
Consolidate your DIY developer portals
It is common to operate multiple DIY portals created over the years. This makes the internal ecosystem of the organization hard to navigate and expensive to maintain, catalyzing the creation of developer productivity teams tasked with rationalizing multiple contexts. By addressing the pain points of the developer directly, Tanzu Developer Portal offers a modern hub that becomes the central focal point for all application development-related activities.
Community and custom plugins
Create your own Backstage plugin or choose from a variety of community plugins and integrate new functionality into your portal with ease: external integrations (e.g. Jira, Confluence, ArgoCD, Jenkins); internal integrations (i.e. any custom tools created by your organization).
Frequently Asked Questions
Are there limitations as to which Backstage plugins I can integrate into my Tanzu Developer Portal?
As a general principle, we aim to make any Backstage plugins compatible with Tanzu Developer Portal. Our portal configurator tool operates with “surfaces” that inform it how to integrate the plugin’s code into the portal. As of the initial release, we are enabling the most commonly used surfaces.