Chapter 2. New features
This section highlights new features in Red Hat Developer Hub 1.1.
2.1. Red Hat Developer Hub Operator is now generally available (GA)
You can use the Red Hat Developer Hub Operator to install Developer Hub on your OpenShift Container Platformcluster. For more information, see the Installing Red Hat Developer Hub using the Operator section in the Administration guide.
2.2. Change in productized version
Red Hat Developer Hub productized version is now based on the upstream Backstage project v1.23.4.
2.3. Ability to manage role-based access controls (RBAC) using the web interface
As an administrator, you can now use Developer Hub to assign specific roles and permissions to individual users or groups. Using the Developer Hub web interface, you can perform the following actions:
- Creating a role
- Editing a role and related permissions
- Deleting a role
For more information, see the Role-Based Access Control in Red Hat Developer Hub section in the Administration guide.
2.4. Migration of the Red Hat Developer Hub to the new backend system
Red Hat Developer Hub 1.1 is now migrated to the Backstage new backend system. With this migration, you might notice the following functionality-related changes in the Developer Hub application:
2.4.1. New Scaffolder Identity client
Identity client functioning differs slightly between the one provided by the new backend system Scaffolder plugin and the one used in the previous release.
The new backend system’s Scaffolder plugin utilizes an identity service that introduces slight differences impacting error handling. For example, when encountering an invalid authorization header in a request, Developer Hub logs the error into the console instead of discarding it.
2.4.2. Enable all GitLab actions
Red Hat Developer Hub 1.1 enables all GitLab actions by default.
2.5. Support for Elastic Kubernetes Services (EKS)
You can now install and use the Red Hat Developer Hub on an EKS cluster.
For more information, see the Red Hat Developer Hub integration with Amazon Web Services section in the Administration guide.
2.6. Support for Azure Kubernetes Services (AKS)
You can now install and use the Red Hat Developer Hub on an AKS cluster.
For more information, see the Red Hat Developer Hub integration with Azure Kubernetes Services section in the Administration guide.
2.7. Support for viewing installed plugins using the web interface
As an administrator, you can now use the Developer Hub web interface to view a table of plugins that are installed. This feature uses the dynamic-plugins-info frontend component, which generates a table of plugins that are currently installed in the Red Hat Developer Hub. You can apply client-side sorting, filtering, and pagination to the plugins table.
For more information, see the Viewing installed plugins section in the Administration guide.
2.8. Supported plugins in Red Hat Developer Hub 1.1
To get a comprehensive list of supported dynamic plugins, see the Dynamic plugins included in Red Hat Developer Hub section in the Administration guide.
