A great developer experience is all about self-service.

Drive developer productivity by allowing developers to run free and use self-service actions like scaffolding a service or provisioning a cloud resource. Your Jira tickets and on-call messages will drop by 80% and developer productivity will change accordingly.

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Self-service is more than microservice scaffolding

Let your developers provision, terminate and perform day-2 operations on any asset exposed in your catalog, within the policies and guardrails you’ve set. Port supports long-running actions: provision a dev env, request permission for a S3 bucket or add a secret to a microservice. Keep developers in the know with a run log for all actions.

Create a rich self-service frontend in seconds

Our tools and wizards create good-looking self-service interfaces. You can build forms or wizards, use steps, require different inputs and validate them. This is how you set golden paths. When needed, you can use manual approvals, TTL and anything else you need for peace of mind.

OnFormSubmit() -> Fire Automation

Port leverages existing infrastructure and automations as the backend of developer self-service actions. It is loosely coupled with your infrastructure, so you can easily integrate Port with your GitHub Workflow, Azure pipeline, Terraform apply or any other automation created by the platform engineering team. Automatically provide developers with what they need at a click of a button. Change underlying automations without worrying about your developer platform.

Stateful

Self-Service actions affect software catalog entities - creating, modifying or deleting them. With Port, all self-service actions are automatically reflected in the software catalog, even when temporary.

Scaffolding a new microservice
Deploy (canary or blue-green)
Feature flag
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

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

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

Update Pod Count
Update auto-scalling group
Execute Incident Response Runbook automation

Train model
Pre-Process dataset
Deploy
A/B Testing traffic route
Revert

Spin up remote Jupyter notebook
Add, remove or update column
Run Airflow DAG
Duplicate Table

Stay in control

Use role-based access control to define what teams and users see and can’t see, what actions they can perform and how often. Ensure self-service only when actions conform with policies, approvals and organizational requirements.