EntityProvider

An entity provider is able to provide entities to the catalog. See https://backstage.io/docs/features/software-catalog/life-of-an-entity for more details.

Signature:

export interface EntityProvider 

Methods

Method	Description
connect(connection)	Called upon initialization by the catalog engine.
getProviderName()	The name of the provider, which must be unique for all providers that are active in a catalog, and stable over time since emitted entities are related to the provider by this name.