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Surface developer docs in Backstage TechDocs #938

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Why

The zero-downtime deployment docs (docs/guides/zero-downtime/) — and the developer docs generally — should be discoverable in the Backstage portal where developers already work, via TechDocs, not only in the git repo.

Scope (deferred — a bigger effort, tracked separately)

This is infra wiring, not doc-writing, hence its own ticket:

  • Add a TechDocs mkdocs.yml (and docs/ nav) for the relevant doc sets.
  • Enable the Backstage TechDocs plugin + a generator/build pipeline (local vs CI build; S3 vs in-cluster storage).
  • Register catalog entities with backstage.io/techdocs-ref annotations so the right docs attach to the right components.
  • Decide which doc trees to publish (start with docs/guides/, the developer-facing set).

Context

The zero-downtime docs (Phases 1–4) are complete in-repo: developer + platform overviews, tutorial, how-to guides, reference, troubleshooting, architecture, glossary, FAQ, demo walkthrough. TechDocs is the remaining distribution step.

Refs: the backstage-portal house skill; ADR-051 (Backstage portal).

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