--- title: How Developer Hub simplifies Backstage configuration description: Developer Hub (Red Hat's distribution of Backstage) simplifies configuration through static catalog imports, dynamic plugins, and GitHub integration. The... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/how-developer-hub-simplifies-backstage-configuration-tsufemmhi twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: How Developer Hub simplifies Backstage configuration | daily.dev og:description: Developer Hub (Red Hat's distribution of Backstage) simplifies configuration through static catalog imports, dynamic plugins, and GitHub integration. The... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/how-developer-hub-simplifies-backstage-configuration-tsufemmhi og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/TsUfemmhI.png og:image:alt: How Developer Hub simplifies Backstage configuration og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # How Developer Hub simplifies Backstage configuration **[Red Hat Developer](https://daily.dev/sources/rhdev)** · 6 min read · 1 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Developer Hub (Red Hat's distribution of Backstage) simplifies configuration through static catalog imports, dynamic plugins, and GitHub integration. The article demonstrates importing templates via YAML locations, enabling GitHub plugins for authentication and user/group management, and configuring repository discovery. Configuration is managed through Kubernetes ConfigMaps and Secrets, with environment variables injecting sensitive GitHub credentials. The setup enables teams to use GitHub organizations for authentication while automatically syncing users, groups, and repositories into the Developer Hub catalog. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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