diff --git a/app-prod.yaml b/app-prod.yaml
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--- a/app-prod.yaml
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@@ -1,12 +0,0 @@
-runtime: custom
-env: flex
-manual_scaling:
-  instances: 1
-resources:
-  cpu: 2
-  memory_gb: 12
-  disk_size_gb: 100
-env_variables:
-  APP_ID: 119816
-  KEY_SECRET: "gcpsecretmanager://projects/allstar-ossf/secrets/allstar-private-key?decoder=bytes"
-  DO_NOTHING_ON_OPT_OUT: true
diff --git a/app-staging.yaml b/app-staging.yaml
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index 081b9c48..00000000
--- a/app-staging.yaml
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@@ -1,12 +0,0 @@
-runtime: custom
-env: flex
-service: staging
-manual_scaling:
-  instances: 1
-resources:
-  cpu: 2
-  memory_gb: 12
-  disk_size_gb: 100
-env_variables:
-  APP_ID: 166485
-  KEY_SECRET: "gcpsecretmanager://projects/allstar-ossf/secrets/allstar-staging-private-key?decoder=bytes"
diff --git a/catalog-info-template.yaml b/catalog-info-template.yaml
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index 00000000..d4c97533
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+++ b/catalog-info-template.yaml
@@ -0,0 +1,28 @@
+# Backstage documentation
+# https://backstage.io/docs/features/software-catalog/descriptor-format/
+
+apiVersion: backstage.io/v1alpha1
+kind: unknown
+metadata:
+  name: $REPO_NAME #pulled from gh api
+  description: $REPO_DESCRIPTION #pulled from gh api
+  annotations:
+    github.com/project-slug: $PROJECT_SLUG #pulled from gh api
+    contentful.com/service-tier: "unknown" #1, 2, 3, 4
+
+  tags:
+    - update-me
+    #need to add sast.yaml to .github/workflows and enable it in polaris dashboard
+    #once that is done this can be changed to sast-enabled
+    - sast-disabled
+    #make this match the value from service-tier above
+    - tier-unknown
+spec:
+  #cli, component, contentful.com/template, documentation, function, library, service, template, website
+  type: unknown 
+  #deprecated, experimental, production, unknown
+  lifecycle: unknown  
+  system: unknown
+  #we can assign owner based on who created the repo or submitted the first PR but theres 
+  #no guarantee 1. they still work here, 2. are on the owning team anymore
+  owner: group:team-unknown 
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/cloudbuild.yaml b/cloudbuild.yaml
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--- a/cloudbuild.yaml
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-steps:
-- name: golang:1.20
-  entrypoint: go
-  args: ['install', 'github.com/google/ko@v0.13.0']
-- name: golang:1.20
-  entrypoint: bash
-  args: ['-c', 'KO_DOCKER_REPO="gcr.io/allstar-ossf" /go/bin/ko publish ./cmd/allstar > container']
-- name: gcr.io/google.com/cloudsdktool/cloud-sdk
-  entrypoint: bash
-  args: ['-c', 'gcloud app deploy --appyaml=app-staging.yaml --project=allstar-ossf --image-url $(cat container)']
-timeout: 1200s
-options:
-  volumes:
-  - name: go-modules
-    path: /go
diff --git a/deploy b/deploy
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--- a/deploy
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-#!/bin/bash
-
-export KO_DOCKER_REPO="gcr.io/allstar-ossf"
-cont=$(ko publish ./cmd/allstar)
-gcloud app deploy --image-url ${cont}