Backstage Plugin for Dr Droid Playbooks

[sourabhbhandari]

Description:

Request to develop a Backstage plugin for Dr Droid Playbooks that allows users to create, update, and execute playbooks from within the Backstage developer portal. The plugin should integrate with Backstage Identity to control user permissions and provide seamless context passing between Backstage and Playbooks.

Requirements:

• Authentication & Authorization:

1. Utilize Backstage Identity to authenticate users.
2. Implement role-based access control (RBAC) to determine user permissions for playbook actions.

• Playbook Management:

1. Allow users to create new playbooks.
2. Enable updating and modifying existing playbooks.
3. Provide a UI for listing available playbooks and their statuses.

• Context Passing & Execution:

1. Allow linking previously executed playbooks for reference.
2. Pass contextual data from Backstage to the Playbook execution.
3. Execute playbooks from Backstage with relevant parameters.

• UI & UX Considerations:

1. Intuitive Backstage UI component for playbook selection and execution.
2. Display execution history, logs, and status updates.

• Expected Benefits:

1. Seamless integration of Playbooks into Backstage.
2. Improved access control and security through Backstage Identity.
3. Efficient workflow automation with contextual playbook execution.