
Shoehorn
Backstage without the platform team
What it does
Where Backstage needs a platform team, one person runs Shoehorn. It's an Intelligent Developer Platform that auto-discovers your services from Kubernetes (via our k8s-agent, YAML manifests still work), GitHub, and your IdP. Tenant isolation by RLS. Forge, our scaffolding engine, spins up new services from reusable templates. Fast fuzzy search across everything. Manage it via UI, CLI, or Terraform same API behind all three. The IDP for the 95%.
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