feature: Want to be able to search and read documents from Confluence with the plugin AWS GenAI

[gePower]

🔖 Feature description

Support searching and reading Confluence documentation like TechDocs.

Note: The backend module plugin-search-backend-module-confluence-collator adds a new document type confluence to the document table, which is linked to the search plugin

What is the recommended approach to implement these tools?

🎤 Context

The current search implementation is locked on the Catalog and Techdocs plugins. We might offer guidance on how to extend the feature to other Backstage search plugin like Confluence , Adr and etc.

✌️ Possible Implementation

Option 1: Create a GenAI backend module for Confluence search
Option 2: Add support for Confluence search in the current GenAI backend plugin

[niallthomson]

Hey @gePower !

I'm not totally familiar with plugging Backstage search in to external sources, but I'm wondering if what could be possible here is to create a generic "Backstage search" tool which could be configured via app-config. I assume the behavior wouldn't be too different from the existing TechDocs search, just where its searching?