Mar 10
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See Spotify Portal for yourself: https://backstage.spotify.com/contact-us/try-portal Software Templates are one of the most powerful tools in your developer platform — but only if your team can actually use them. In this demo, Stuart Clark (Developer Advocate at Spotify) walks through the new Portal Scaffolder redesign: a fully in-Portal experience for discovering, creating, editing, publishing, and running Software Templates — no GitHub context-switching required. What you'll see: - Create a new Software Template from scratch — right inside Portal - Use the built-in editor with autocomplete, validation & live form preview - Run a dry run to see step-by-step logs before publishing - Publish directly from Portal — no Git required - Watch real-time execution logs and clear output artifacts Whether you're a Platform Engineer building golden paths, a developer onboarding to a new stack, or an admin troubleshooting at scale — the Portal Scaffolder makes Software Templates a practical, trustworthy foundation for your platform engineering workflow. Docs: https://backstage.spotify.com/docs/portal/core-features-and-plugins/scaffolder/ --- Chapters: 0:00 Intro 0:21 The problem with today's template experience 0:47 Introducing the Portal Scaffolder 0:58 Creating a template from scratch 1:14 Built-in editor with autocomplete & field discovery 1:25 Previewing and dry running your template 1:52 Publishing directly from Portal 2:08 Running a template in real time 2:36 Summary & how to get started --- What is Spotify Portal for Backstage? Spotify Portal is an internal developer portal (IDP) built on top of the Backstage open source framework. Designed by Spotify’s platform engineering experts for enterprise companies of all shapes and sizes, Portal is a simple, powerful way to streamline software development and leverage AI workflows across your engineering org. Learn more about how Spotify Portal supercharges developer experience and productivity: https://backstage.spotify.com Learn more about internal developer portals (IDPs): https://backstage.spotify.com/discover/backstage-101