Domains

Summary

A Domain groups a collection of systems that share terminology, domain models, business purpose, or documentation, i.e. form a bounded context.

Definition

!!! info "Backstage Docs"

See [the backstage docs](https://backstage.io/docs/features/software-catalog/descriptor-format/#kind-domain) for a full description of the `Domain` entity definition.

As with all other entities, a system consists of the envelope types, apiVersion and kind, as well as generic metadata and a specific spec.

{% include-markdown "../references/entity-envelope.md" start="" end="" heading-offset=1 %}

kind [Required]

The kind is the high level entity type being described. For a software domain this must be Domain, e.g. kind: Domain.

Other available kinds are enumerated in the entity types reference.

{% include-markdown "../references/entity-envelope.md" start="" end="" heading-offset=1 %}

{% include-markdown "../references/entity-metadata.md" start="" end="" heading-offset=2 %}

spec [Required]

The actual specification data that describes the entity.

{% include-markdown "../references/domain-spec.md" start="" end="" heading-offset=2 %}