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๐Ÿ“‹ 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.



Basic blueprints relation

Common data modelsโ€‹

  • 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. ๐ŸŽฌ

๐Ÿงฑ Step 1 - Setup blueprintsโ€‹

๐Ÿ”€ Step 2 - Relate blueprintsโ€‹