AI is coming, but first it's Kratix, Kubernetes and Crossplane

The latest features and updates from Roadie.

AI is coming…

We’ve been playing around with AI features in Roadie for around 18 months now, ever since we open-sourced the RAG AI plugin way back in 2024.

We’ve struggled to understand how though.

A breakthrough came this month as we got stuck into the developments that have taken place in late 2024 and early 2025, notably the improvements in foundational models and in the introduction of the Model Context Protocol (MCP) paradigm.

We’ll be pulling at a few different threads over the next few weeks and months to see what’s feasible in the short-term, so watch this space for things like:

• RAG-AI-powered search
• MCP servers to return data and actions from your Roadie instance
• Integration of common (but complex) actions into the UI, powered by AI

Plugins, plugins, plugins

In the meantime, we’ve introduced two substantial plugin improvements into Roadie that radically improve ingestion of entities.

Kratix

The Kratix Platform has grown in popularity recently as more folks a) adopt the idea of an internal platform and b) want an open-source alternative to the proprietary platforms that exist out on the market.

That’s something that we want to support and foster. We’re big believers in open-source, as you’d imagine given we’re built on top of an open-source product and regularly contribute to various oss projects.

Kratix plugins are now available in Roadie. You’ll need to be a paid Kratix user to access them, as is the model for the folks behind Kratix (Syntasso, in case you were wondering) but we now suport:

• Kratix FE plugin
• Kratix BE plugin
• Kratix scaffolder actions

Enjoy. https://roadie.io/docs/integrations/kratix/

Terasky K8s Ingestor and Crossplane plugins

We also folded many of Terasky’s Kubernetes plugins into Roadie.

Terasky have managed to thread the needle with improving the way Backstage interacts with Kubernetes and done so in order to ingest entities directly from K8s clusters.

They’ve also open-sourced Crossplane plugins to allow Backstage to:

• Ingest Kubernetes Components
• Ingest XRDs
• Ingest Claims

Enjoy. https://roadie.io/docs/integrations/kubernetes-ingestor/