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Service Catalog Reference
Search service catalog concepts. Covers Backstage catalog-info.yaml format, entity types, ownership model, dependency mapping, and automated discovery.
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Service Catalog Reference
The Service Catalog Reference covers catalog-info.yaml format, Backstage entity types, ownership model, dependency mapping, and automated discovery from source control.
• Look up catalog-info.yaml schema before implementing Backstage service registration
• Reference entity type definitions before designing a service catalog taxonomy
• Find ownership model patterns before a service ownership initiative
• Reference automated discovery patterns before eliminating manual catalog updates
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What does this tool tell you?
The Service Catalog Reference covers catalog-info.yaml format, Backstage entity types, ownership model, dependency mapping, and automated discovery from source control.
What affects the result most?
Service catalog: inventory of all services with ownership, dependencies, SLOs, on-call, runbooks. catalog-info.yaml (Backstage): YAML descriptor file committed with service — auto-discovered. Entity types: Component (service/library), System (group of components), Domain (business area), API.
How should I use the result?
Use this tool to orient quickly to the concepts, field names, or values you are about to look up in a full specification or vendor documentation. It summarizes the common cases; the authoritative source remains whichever standard or vendor doc defines the values themselves.