📄️ Create Golden Paths
Golden paths are a foundational element of effective platform engineering They're your organization's standardized, opinionated way of doing things that developers actually want to use. Think of them as the "happy path" that guides developers toward best practices while eliminating decision fatigue and reducing cognitive load.
📄️ Day 2 - Resource Lifecycle
Managing the lifecycle of cloud resources is a critical aspect of platform engineering, often referred to as "Day 2 operations." After resources are provisioned—whether they're databases, compute instances, storage buckets, or Kubernetes namespaces—they require ongoing management to ensure reliability, security, and cost-effectiveness.
📄️ Setup Approval Workflows
Effective platform engineering requires oversight at every level—whether it's a human developer requesting a production database or an AI agent automatically scaling infrastructure. Without proper controls, self-service can quickly become a security and compliance nightmare. Port provides three complementary layers of governance: Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) for user permissions, approval workflows for human oversight, and dynamic permissions for context-aware access control.
📄️ Self-Service Environments
Automating the creation of development environments is crucial for engineering teams. Manual setup is slow, error-prone, and often leads to inconsistencies that can delay development and cause integration headaches. By enabling self-service environment provisioning, teams can spin up the resources they need—on demand and with the right guardrails—freeing up developers to focus on building features instead of wrangling infrastructure.