Citrix Secure Developer Spaces™

Citrix SDS Workspaces Plugin for Backstage

November 5, 2025

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Integrate Citrix Secure Developer Spaces™ (SDS) Workspaces into your Backstage developer portal to direcly manage secure Workspaces.

Overview

Backstage is an open-source developer portal framework that centralizes software components, infrastructure tools, and documentation into a unified interface. It supports a plugin-based architecture, enabling extensibility across both frontend and backend layers. The Citrix SDS Workspaces Plugin allows developers to view and manage SDS Workspaces directly from Backstage entity pages. This integration enhances developer productivity by embedding workspace operations into the tools they already use.

Backstage Plugin

Note:

The SDS Workspaces integration requires both frontend and backend plugins to function correctly.

Key Features

View and manage SDS Workspaces from Backstage
Custom SDS Workspace cards and tabs on entity pages
Secure backend integration with SDS platform APIs
No client-side exposure of credentials

Backstage Plugin

Prerequisites

A running Backstage instance
Access to Citrix Secure Developer Spaces
SDS platform base URL

Backstage Plugin Architecture

Backstage Plugin Name	Description
@citrixcloud/backstage-sds-workspaces	Frontend plugin for displaying SDS Workspace cards and tabs
@citrixcloud/backstage-sds-workspaces-backend	Backend plugin for secure communication with the SDS Workspaces platform

Important:

To use the SDS Workspaces frontend plugin, you must also install and configure the backstage-sds-workspaces-backend plugin in your Backstage backend project. The backend plugin acts as the bridge between your Backstage instance and the SDS Workspaces platform, providing all required APIs for the frontend plugin.

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Citrix SDS Workspaces Plugin for Backstage

November 5, 2025

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November 5, 2025

Contributed by:

Citrix SDS Workspaces Plugin for Backstage

Overview

Key Features

Prerequisites

Backstage Plugin Architecture

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