Backstage is not an Internal Developer Portal, but a framework to build one.

This article highlights an important difference between the two. Basically, you won’t get an IDP out of the box with Backstage, you need to put some time and effort to make it useful and this fact leaves people, who thought otherwise, frustrated.

Also, it’s interesting how the author draws a parallel with Kubernetes. I would argue that Kubernetes is also a framework to build a platform and not an out of the box solution.

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