Name: Supercharge Backstage: Self-Service GitOps Staging Environments With VCluster and FluxCD - Farhaan Shamsee & Rakesh Reddy, Siemens Technology
Start: 2025-08-06T11:30:00+0530
End: 2025-08-06T12:00:00+0530

6-7 August
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Wednesday August 6, 2025 11:30am - 12:00pm IST

Hall 1

What if developers could create fully isolated, production-like environments—directly from Backstage—with just a click?

This talk showcases Backstage as a powerful self-service platform to spin up vClusters representing Dev, Test, and Prod environments. Each virtual cluster is fully GitOps-managed with FluxCD, automatically pulling from specific Git branches to mirror real deployment stages.

The environments can be provisioned on-demand—whether on a developer’s local laptop (using WSL), a centralized server, or a remote EKS cluster—offering flexibility and production-like confidence at every stage.

We’ll deep-dive into building this “staging system” where code is tested safely before ever reaching customers, while giving developers the speed and autonomy they crave—all powered by Backstage.

By the end of the session, you’ll learn how to build a practical, cloud-native staging system to test, validate, and promote code safely—before your customers ever see it.

Speakers

Farhaan Shamsee

Senior DevOps Engineer, Siemens Technology Services Private Limited

Farhaan is a Senior DevOps Engineer at Siemens passionate about platform engineering and open source. With extensive experience in Kubernetes, GitOps, and cloud-native technologies, he focuses on building scalable self-service platforms. His work integrates tools like Backstage, vCluster... Read More →

Rakesh Reddy

Sr.DevOps Engineer, siemens

Rakesh Reddy G is a Senior DevOps Engineer at Siemens with 7+ years of experience in Kubernetes, AWS, and CI/CD automation. He specializes in GitOps, security, and self-service platforms using tools like Backstage and FluxCD. Passionate about open-source and DevOps best practices... Read More →

Wednesday August 6, 2025 11:30am - 12:00pm IST
Hall 1

Platform Engineering

Content Experience Level Intermediate

KubeCon + CloudNativeCon India 2025

Farhaan Shamsee

Rakesh Reddy

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