The Gloo Gateway developer portal provides a Kubernetes-native framework for managing the definitions of APIs, API client identity, and API policies that enables GitOps and CI/CD workflows. The portal abstracts the complexity and enables developers to publish, document, share, discover, and use APIs.
The Gloo Gateway Portal Backstage backend plugin fetches your Gloo Gateway Portal APIs on an interval and adds them to your Backstage catalog, along with some supporting entities like a gloo-platform-portal-service-account user. This functionality is enabled through Gloo Gateway Portal's built in REST API, and configurable authorization policies.