Custom GitOps Integration

If Port's available GitOps providers do not fit your use-case, you can create a custom GitOps integration by using our API.

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Before writing custom logic to integrate Port into your GitOps process, you should check our existing Git providers and CI/CD integrations.

💡 Custom GitOps common use cases

• Use your Git provider as the source-of-truth for your microservices, packages, libraries and other software catalog assets;
• Allow developers to keep the catalog up-to-date, by making updates to files in their Git repositories;
• Create a standardized way to document software catalog assets in your organization;
• etc.

Managing entities using custom GitOps

To manage entities using GitOps, add a json file to microservice repository containing the entity JSON.

Then, whenever your CI/CD process runs, an automated check will review whether the contents of the file changed, and will send the new file contents to Port's API using a simple API call, thus always keeping your microservice entity up to date.

Example

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In this example, you will create an Entity for the Microservice blueprint from the quickstart.

Create a local JSON file, named entity.json, with the following content:

{
  "identifier": "notification-microservice",
  "title": "Notification Service",
  "properties": {
    "url": "https://www.github.com/user/notification"
  }
}

Save this file to your version control repository. Then as part of your CI/CD, use create entities route, to add your new Microservice:

blueprint_id='microservice'

curl --location --request POST "https://api.getport.io/v1/blueprints/${blueprint_id}/entities" \
    --header "Authorization: Bearer $access_token" \
    --header "Content-Type: application/json" \
    --data @entity.json

# The output of the command contains the content of the resulting entity

Now, whenever your CI/CD runs, it will report the latest definition of the entity to Port, giving you the latest information directly in Port.

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Remember that an access token is needed to make API requests, refer back to Getting an API token if you need to generate a new one.