Platform Engineering
A Terraform-first Approach to Internal Developer Portals
Mar 14, 2023
Create developer self-service actions that interact with IaC. Remove cognitive load and define golden paths. Leverage your IaC infrastructure to empower developer self-service.
IaC requires domain knowledge, and contains many elements developers aren’t familiar with, creating unnecessary cognitive load. Build a developer self-service UI over IaC, so developers can apply through the internal developer portal.
Once developers fill in the developer self-service form, Port injects the relevant inputs into the IaC file and git commit. It’s that simple.
Once TTL expires, workflow automation can tie into the software catalog and run Terraform destroy or any similar action when needed.