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.

Get started with self-service environments

Explore these step-by-step guides to automate environment creation and management:

• Manage a Developer Environment Lifecycle Create a Terraform based Development Environment and show its details in Port

• Create a new AWS account with GitLab
  Instantly provision isolated AWS accounts for your teams using a GitLab-driven workflow.

• Manage a Kubernetes namespace
  Empower developers to create, update, or delete Kubernetes namespaces on demand—no tickets required.

• Trigger Terraform Cloud via webhook
  Automate infrastructure changes by kicking off Terraform Cloud runs directly from Port.

• Trigger a Spacelift stack
  Launch and manage Spacelift stacks with a single click for streamlined environment provisioning.