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Marketplace Plugin

The Marketplace plugin is the in-portal interface for discovering, enabling, and disabling dynamic plugins without editing YAML files. It is accessible at /marketplace in the sidebar.

Status: Always loaded (preInstalled). No dynamic-plugins.yaml entry required.

Packages​

PackageRole
devportal-marketplace-frontend-dynamicFrontend — Marketplace UI at /marketplace
devportal-marketplace-backend-dynamic-dynamicBackend — plugin catalog and install state management
red-hat-developer-hub-backstage-plugin-catalog-backend-module-extensionsCatalog module — registers Extension/Package/Collection entity kinds

The DevPortal Marketplace is a fork of the Red Hat Developer Hub Extensions plugin, customized for VeeCode DevPortal.

What it does​

  • Displays all available plugins (bundled + OCI-published)
  • Shows which plugins are enabled or disabled
  • Enable button saves the plugin selection to extensions-install.yaml
  • Pending Changes badge appears in the header when a restart is needed to apply changes
  • After restart, enabled plugins load from extensions-install.yaml

How plugin persistence works​

When you enable a plugin via the Marketplace:

  1. The backend writes an entry to /app/extensions-install.yaml
  2. A Pending Changes indicator appears in the header
  3. On the next pod restart, install-dynamic-plugins.py reads extensions-install.yaml (included in dynamic-plugins.yaml) and installs the selected plugins

This means Marketplace selections persist across restarts once the pod is restarted.

Mount point configuration (from dynamic-plugins.default.yaml)​

pluginConfig:
  dynamicPlugins:
    frontend:
      devportal.marketplace-frontend:
        appIcons:
          - name: pluginsIcon
            importName: PluginsIcon
        dynamicRoutes:
          - path: /marketplace
            importName: DynamicExtensionsPluginRouter
            menuItem:
              icon: pluginsIcon
              text: Marketplace
        menuItems:
          marketplace:
            title: Marketplace
            icon: pluginsIcon