Port Product Updates: April 2024

Our biggest news this month is the GCP integration, allowing you to see all GCP resources in the portal, in context of any other software catalog entity. We’ve also worked on many usability improvements, and added a handy automation feature.

In other news, we also released a simple tool to help you plan your portal roadmap as part of our portal-as-product approach. You can access it here.

Biggest

GCP integration - powered by Ocean

You can now ingest Google Cloud resources into the software catalog, including projects, container clusters, cloud-run services, BigQuery tables, compute engine autoscaler, and other GCP objects. The integration with GCP supports real-time event processing, which allows for an accurate real-time representation of your Google Cloud infrastructure inside Port. See docs.

Define the self-service action payload

You can now create custom payloads when setting up actions. You can use it to set up self-service actions that can directly connect to existing APIs or pipelines without the need to make adjustments in a separate step. See docs.

Medium

Builder data model view improvements

In the builder tab, we made working on the data model easier:

Hide blueprints
- We now allow hiding blueprints in the data model view, reducing unnecessary visual complexity
Search blueprints
- You can search and discover all blueprints, shown or hidden

Mirror properties improvements

Mirror aggregation properties
- You can use a mirror property to fetch and display aggregation coming from related blueprints
Search by mirror properties
- You can now use mirror properties as part of search queries anywhere search queries are used in Port, such as chart filters or directly in the API

Existing integration improvements

Azure ocean integration: Manage multiple subscriptions in one installation. You can now manage multiple Azure subscriptions under one installation, significantly reducing the maintenance efforts of your integration. See docs
Kubernetes exporter: Manage resources using Kubernetes CRDs (See guide) and map each item from an array into your catalog with ItemsToParse (See docs)

Small

Display a single property as a number chart

You can now display a specific entity’s number property in any dashboard with the number chart. For example, get an MTTR metric for a service directly from PagerDuty and display it on the specific entity dashboard. See docs.

Automatically trigger an action on behalf of a user

You can now set an automated workflow by triggering actions automatically on behalf of users. These actions will show up for users on their “my actions” panels. See docs

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Example JSON block

{
  "foo": "bar"
}

Order Domain

{
  "properties": {},
  "relations": {},
  "title": "Orders",
  "identifier": "Orders"
}

Cart System

{
  "properties": {},
  "relations": {
    "domain": "Orders"
  },
  "identifier": "Cart",
  "title": "Cart"
}

Products System

{
  "properties": {},
  "relations": {
    "domain": "Orders"
  },
  "identifier": "Products",
  "title": "Products"
}

Cart Resource

{
  "properties": {
    "type": "postgress"
  },
  "relations": {},
  "icon": "GPU",
  "title": "Cart SQL database",
  "identifier": "cart-sql-sb"
}

Cart API

{
 "identifier": "CartAPI",
 "title": "Cart API",
 "blueprint": "API",
 "properties": {
   "type": "Open API"
 },
 "relations": {
   "provider": "CartService"
 },
 "icon": "Link"
}

Core Kafka Library

{
  "properties": {
    "type": "library"
  },
  "relations": {
    "system": "Cart"
  },
  "title": "Core Kafka Library",
  "identifier": "CoreKafkaLibrary"
}

Core Payment Library

{
  "properties": {
    "type": "library"
  },
  "relations": {
    "system": "Cart"
  },
  "title": "Core Payment Library",
  "identifier": "CorePaymentLibrary"
}

Cart Service JSON

{
 "identifier": "CartService",
 "title": "Cart Service",
 "blueprint": "Component",
 "properties": {
   "type": "service"
 },
 "relations": {
   "system": "Cart",
   "resources": [
     "cart-sql-sb"
   ],
   "consumesApi": [],
   "components": [
     "CorePaymentLibrary",
     "CoreKafkaLibrary"
   ]
 },
 "icon": "Cloud"
}

Products Service JSON

{
  "identifier": "ProductsService",
  "title": "Products Service",
  "blueprint": "Component",
  "properties": {
    "type": "service"
  },
  "relations": {
    "system": "Products",
    "consumesApi": [
      "CartAPI"
    ],
    "components": []
  }
}

Component Blueprint

{
 "identifier": "Component",
 "title": "Component",
 "icon": "Cloud",
 "schema": {
   "properties": {
     "type": {
       "enum": [
         "service",
         "library"
       ],
       "icon": "Docs",
       "type": "string",
       "enumColors": {
         "service": "blue",
         "library": "green"
       }
     }
   },
   "required": []
 },
 "mirrorProperties": {},
 "formulaProperties": {},
 "calculationProperties": {},
 "relations": {
   "system": {
     "target": "System",
     "required": false,
     "many": false
   },
   "resources": {
     "target": "Resource",
     "required": false,
     "many": true
   },
   "consumesApi": {
     "target": "API",
     "required": false,
     "many": true
   },
   "components": {
     "target": "Component",
     "required": false,
     "many": true
   },
   "providesApi": {
     "target": "API",
     "required": false,
     "many": false
   }
 }
}

Resource Blueprint

{
 “identifier”: “Resource”,
 “title”: “Resource”,
 “icon”: “DevopsTool”,
 “schema”: {
   “properties”: {
     “type”: {
       “enum”: [
         “postgress”,
         “kafka-topic”,
         “rabbit-queue”,
         “s3-bucket”
       ],
       “icon”: “Docs”,
       “type”: “string”
     }
   },
   “required”: []
 },
 “mirrorProperties”: {},
 “formulaProperties”: {},
 “calculationProperties”: {},
 “relations”: {}
}

API Blueprint

{
 "identifier": "API",
 "title": "API",
 "icon": "Link",
 "schema": {
   "properties": {
     "type": {
       "type": "string",
       "enum": [
         "Open API",
         "grpc"
       ]
     }
   },
   "required": []
 },
 "mirrorProperties": {},
 "formulaProperties": {},
 "calculationProperties": {},
 "relations": {
   "provider": {
     "target": "Component",
     "required": true,
     "many": false
   }
 }
}

Domain Blueprint

{
 "identifier": "Domain",
 "title": "Domain",
 "icon": "Server",
 "schema": {
   "properties": {},
   "required": []
 },
 "mirrorProperties": {},
 "formulaProperties": {},
 "calculationProperties": {},
 "relations": {}
}

System Blueprint

{
 "identifier": "System",
 "title": "System",
 "icon": "DevopsTool",
 "schema": {
   "properties": {},
   "required": []
 },
 "mirrorProperties": {},
 "formulaProperties": {},
 "calculationProperties": {},
 "relations": {
   "domain": {
     "target": "Domain",
     "required": true,
     "many": false
   }
 }
}

Microservices SDLC

Scaffold a new microservice
Deploy (canary or blue-green)
Feature flagging
Revert
Lock deployments
Add Secret
Force merge pull request (skip tests on crises)
Add environment variable to service
Add IaC to the service
Upgrade package version

Development environments

Spin up a developer environment for 5 days
ETL mock data to environment
Invite developer to the environment
Extend TTL by 3 days

Cloud resources

Provision a cloud resource
Modify a cloud resource
Get permissions to access cloud resource

SRE actions

Update pod count
Update auto-scaling group
Execute incident response runbook automation

Data Engineering

Add / Remove / Update Column to table
Run Airflow DAG
Duplicate table

Backoffice

Change customer configuration
Update customer software version
Upgrade - Downgrade plan tier
Create - Delete customer

Machine learning actions

Train model
Pre-process dataset
Deploy
A/B testing traffic route
Revert
Spin up remote Jupyter notebook

Engineering tools

Observability
Tasks management
CI/CD
On-Call management
Troubleshooting tools
DevSecOps
Runbooks

Infrastructure

Cloud Resources
K8S
Containers & Serverless
IaC
Databases
Environments
Regions

Software and more

Microservices
Docker Images
Docs
APIs
3rd parties
Runbooks
Cron jobs

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Port Product Updates: April 2024