Tech Radar Plugin

The Tech Radar plugin provides a visual technology adoption radar, helping teams communicate which technologies are recommended, in trial, on hold, or being phased out.

Status: Default plugin, enabled by default. No chart values entry is required.

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Packages

Package	Role
backstage-community-plugin-tech-radar	Frontend: Tech Radar page at /tech-radar
backstage-community-plugin-tech-radar-backend	Backend: serves radar data

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What it does

• Renders an interactive radar visualization at /tech-radar
• Registers a Tech Radar sidebar entry
• Data is served by the backend plugin from its configured data source

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Configuration

The catalog index's default plugin file (dynamic-plugins.default.yaml) enables both packages and configures the frontend route and sidebar entry:

pluginConfig:
  dynamicPlugins:
    frontend:
      backstage-community.plugin-tech-radar:
        appIcons:
          - name: techRadar
            importName: TechRadarIcon
        dynamicRoutes:
          - path: /tech-radar
            importName: TechRadarPage
            menuItem:
              icon: techRadar
              text: Tech Radar
              textKey: menuItem.techRadar
            config:
              props:
                width: 1500
                height: 800
        menuItems:
          tech-radar:
            priority: 76

To serve your own radar entries instead of the sample dataset, configure the Tech Radar backend data source. Refer to the Backstage Tech Radar plugin documentation for the backend API details.

Turn it off

Add both override entries with the {{inherit}} tag and the full !<plugin path> part, plus disabled: true, under global.dynamic.plugins on Kubernetes or in the operator plugin file on the local stack. On Kubernetes write the tag as {{ "{{inherit}}" }}; in the operator plugin file write {{inherit}} as is:

plugins:
  - package: oci://quay.io/veecode/backstage-community-plugin-tech-radar:{{inherit}}!backstage-community-plugin-tech-radar
    disabled: true
  - package: oci://quay.io/veecode/backstage-community-plugin-tech-radar-backend:{{inherit}}!backstage-community-plugin-tech-radar-backend
    disabled: true

The production setup guide shows the same entries in a full disable flow in Disable a default plugin. See Adding Plugins for the local-stack equivalent.