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by royjacobs 1364 days ago
No, there's no requirement for any kind of source control at all. If you do have source control in your company (and, if so, welcome to the 1990s!) you can set it up in such a way that all your repos get scanned for metadata that gets ingested into the software catalog. There's implementations for GitHub and Gitlab (I built that one at $PREV_JOB) and others. Also, other kind of metadata, like user and group information, can come from sources like LDAP, Azure AD, etc.

To be clear, Backstage is not an alternative to Gitea, Github or anything like that. It's not a source code repository hosting tool.