📋 Define Your Data Model
Defining your data model for the software catalog is similar to defining a database structure. You can also use common data models pre-defined by Port.
There are two main building blocks in setting up the data model:
Blueprints - Represent an entity type. Blueprints hold the schema of the entities you wish to represent in the software catalog. For example: a microservice and an environment blueprint.
Relations - Allows you to define the dependency model between blueprints. Relations turn Port's catalog into a graph-oriented catalog.
Common data models
- Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC)
- Common blueprints: Service, Deployment, Environment, Package, Pipeline, Pull Request, etc.
- Cloud
- Common blueprints: Lambda, EKS, Kafka, S3, Postgres, etc.
- Kubernetes & Argo Catalog
- Common blueprints: Cluster, CronJob, Namespace, Pods, Replica Sets, Istio, ArgoApp, ArgoProject, etc.
- C4 (Backstage Style)
- Common blueprints: System, Domain, Resource, Component, Group.
- Multi-cloud architecture
- Common blueprints: Cloud Vendor, Region, Account, etc.
- Single tenant
- Common blueprints: Application, Customer, Running Application, etc.
In this live demo example, we can see an example of a comprehensive data model, using Blueprints & Relations. 🎬