Guides & tutorials

To help you get up and running quickly with Port, we have created step-by-step guides for common use-cases you may want to solve using Port.

These guides continue where the onboarding process ends, see the getting started page to make sure you have all of the initial components in your portal.

Available guides

📄️ Scaffold a new service

This guide takes 7 minutes to complete, and aims to demonstrate the power of self-service actions in Port.

📄️ Ensure production readiness

This guide takes 10 minutes to complete, and aims to cover:

📄️ Create cloud resources using IaC

This guide takes 8 minutes to complete, and aims to demonstrate:

📄️ Visualize services' k8s runtime

This guide takes 10 minutes to complete, and aims to demonstrate the value of Port's integration with Kubernetes.

📄️ Visualize services' k8s runtime using ArgoCD

This guide takes 10 minutes to complete, and aims to demonstrate the value of Port's integration with ArgoCD.

📄️ Let developers enrich services using Gitops

This guide takes 10 minutes to complete, and aims to demonstrate Port's flexibility when working with Gitops.

📄️ Get started with AWS

This guide takes 5 minutes to complete, and aims to quickly integrate your AWS environment into Port.

📄️ IAM Permission Management

Overview

📄️ Lock service deployment

During peak periods such as campaigns, holidays, or system outages, it becomes crucial to maintain stability and avoid unexpected changes or disruptions to services. Implementing a service locking mechanism using Port's Github Action helps to enforce this stability by temporarily preventing deployments during these critical times.

📄️ Send Slack reminders for scorecards

This guide takes 7 minutes to complete, and aims to demonstrate:

📄️ Import data from Backstage

Port provides a simple script that can be used to import data from your Backstage instance into Port using the Backstage API.