CNCF [Cloud Native Computing Foundation] Courses

The Evolution of Backstage Backends

A look at how Backstage’s backend is evolving, from lessons in the existing system to a design intended to improve development and deployment.

• YouTube
• 28 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Bringing Data Visualization to Backstage: Software Analytics and Developer Insights

See how software analytics and Vega.js visualizations can bring codebase and team insights into a Backstage developer portal.

• YouTube
• 31 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

What We Learned During Our Journey in Using Backstage at DAZN

Lessons from DAZN’s Backstage rollout, including how technical choices and community engagement shaped adoption and plugin contributions.

• YouTube
• 24 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

How We Scaled Catalog Ingestion to Hundreds of Thousands of Entities

A technical deep dive into extending Backstage’s entity provider and catalog processor to ingest hundreds of thousands of entities.

• YouTube
• 39 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Leading Architectural Change with Backstage

Practical strategies for using Backstage to scale platform stability and governance while preserving engineering freedom during rapid organizational growth.

• YouTube
• 33 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Measuring Developer Happiness: Analytics for Backstage

Learn how Backstage usage data and key metrics can show whether the platform is improving engineering productivity.

• YouTube
• 26 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Building an Internal Developer Platform with Backstage Plugins

Five Backstage plugin use cases show how an internal developer platform can provide a Heroku-like deployment experience.

• YouTube
• 27 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Building Reusable Operators with Controller Idioms in Kubernetes

Learn how controller idioms, state machines, and builder types can be combined to create reusable Kubernetes operators.

• YouTube
• 19 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Running a Multi-Tenant Platform on a Managed Kubernetes Cluster

Explore running a multi-tenant platform on a managed Kubernetes cluster.

• YouTube
• 48 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

How to Build a Multi-Cloud Database-as-a-Service

A Cloud Native Live session on building a Database-as-a-Service across multiple clouds.

• YouTube
• 57 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

From Object-Oriented Programming to Go - Transitioning Paradigms

A short introduction to Go framed as a move from object-oriented programming.

• YouTube
• 33 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Open Source Security-as-Code: Transforming Cloud Security for Developers

Open-source security-as-code helps developers detect cloud policy violations and automate remediation, including security group fixes.

• YouTube
• 40 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

How to Achieve Comprehensive Protection for Cloud Native Applications and Workloads

A cloud-native security walkthrough links web exploits and runtime risks to a predictive protection model, then demonstrates protection for accounts, repositories, and container workloads.

• YouTube
• 59 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Kalix - Tackling the Cloud to Edge Continuum

A talk on tackling the continuum between cloud and edge computing.

• YouTube
• 57 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

OpenTelemetry Community Demo - Cloud Native Live

A community demo focused on OpenTelemetry.

• YouTube
• 56 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video