$ backstage-api facet get --facet spec.lifecycle
{
" facets" : {
" spec.lifecycle" : [
{
" value" : " production" ,
" count" : 8
},
{
" value" : " development" ,
" count" : 5
}
]
}
}
$ backstage-api facet get --facet spec.lifecycle --pretty
+-------------+-------+
| Value | Count |
+-------------+-------+
| production | 8 |
| development | 5 |
+-------------+-------+
backstage-api orphan list
[
{
" metadata" : {
" namespace" : " default" ,
" annotations" : {
" backstage.io/managed-by-location" : " url:xxxxxx" ,
" backstage.io/managed-by-origin-location" : " url:xxxxxx" ,
" backstage.io/view-url" : " xxxxxx" ,
" backstage.io/edit-url" : " xxxxxx" ,
" backstage.io/source-location" : " url:xxxxxx" ,
" backstage.io/orphan" : " true"
},
" name" : " qwerty" ,
" uid" : " xxxxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxxxx" ,
" etag" : " xxxxxx"
},
" apiVersion" : " backstage.io/v1alpha1" ,
" kind" : " Component" ,
" spec" : {
" type" : " service" ,
" owner" : " user:guest" ,
" lifecycle" : " experimental"
},
" relations" : [
{
" type" : " ownedBy" ,
" targetRef" : " user:default/guest"
}
]
}
]
$ backstage-api orphan list --pretty
+-------------+--------+-------------+
| Kind | Name | Owner |
+-------------+--------+-------------+
| Component | qwerty | user:guest |
+-------------+--------+-------------+
🔄 catalog refresh Command
$ backstage-api catalog refresh --entity-ref component:default/my-service
🔄 Refreshing entity: component:default/my-service...
✅ Entity refresh request submitted successfully!
🔍 catalog get-by-name Command
$ backstage-api catalog get-by-name --kind Component --name my-service --namespace default
🔍 Looking up entity: Component:default/my-service...
✅ Entity found!
Entity details:
{
" metadata" : {
" namespace" : " default" ,
" annotations" : {
" backstage.io/managed-by-location" : " url:https://github.com/example/repo/blob/master/catalog-info.yaml" ,
" backstage.io/managed-by-origin-location" : " url:https://github.com/example/repo/blob/master/catalog-info.yaml" ,
" backstage.io/view-url" : " https://github.com/example/repo/blob/master/catalog-info.yaml" ,
" backstage.io/edit-url" : " https://github.com/example/repo/edit/master/catalog-info.yaml"
},
" name" : " my-service" ,
" uid" : " 12345-abcde-67890-fghij" ,
" etag" : " abc123def456"
},
" apiVersion" : " backstage.io/v1alpha1" ,
" kind" : " Component" ,
" spec" : {
" type" : " service" ,
" lifecycle" : " production" ,
" owner" : " team:engineering"
},
" relations" : [
{
" type" : " ownedBy" ,
" targetRef" : " group:default/engineering"
}
]
}
$ backstage-api catalog get-by-name --kind Component --name my-service --namespace default --pretty
🔍 Looking up entity: Component:default/my-service...
✅ Entity found!
📋 Entity Details:
┌────────────┬─────────────────┐
│ Kind │ Component │
├────────────┼─────────────────┤
│ Name │ my-service │
├────────────┼─────────────────┤
│ Namespace │ default │
├────────────┼─────────────────┤
│ Title │ N/A │
├────────────┼─────────────────┤
│ Description│ N/A │
├────────────┼─────────────────┤
│ Owner │ team:engineering│
├────────────┼─────────────────┤
│ Type │ service │
├────────────┼─────────────────┤
│ Lifecycle │ production │
└────────────┴─────────────────┘
📝 Annotations:
┌───────────────────────────────────────────┬──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
│ Key │ Value │
├───────────────────────────────────────────┼──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┤
│ backstage.io/managed-by-location │ url:https://github.com/example/repo/blob/master/catalog-info.yaml│
├───────────────────────────────────────────┼──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┤
│ backstage.io/managed-by-origin-location │ url:https://github.com/example/repo/blob/master/catalog-info.yaml│
├───────────────────────────────────────────┼──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┤
│ backstage.io/view-url │ https://github.com/example/repo/blob/master/catalog-info.yaml │
├───────────────────────────────────────────┼──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┤
│ backstage.io/edit-url │ https://github.com/example/repo/edit/master/catalog-info.yaml │
└───────────────────────────────────────────┴──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘
🔄 Relations:
┌──────────┬──────────────────────────┐
│ Type │ Target │
├──────────┼──────────────────────────┤
│ ownedBy │ group:default/engineering│
└──────────┴──────────────────────────┘
🌍 catalog create-location Command
$ backstage-api catalog create-location --target https://github.com/org/repo/blob/master/catalog-info.yaml
📝 Creating location for target: https://github.com/org/repo/blob/master/catalog-info.yaml...
✅ Location created successfully!