Porter Dev

Porter is "bring your own cloud" PaaS — it deploys Kubernetes to your own AWS, GCP, or Azure account and wraps it in a Heroku-like experience with a REST API. Teams get cloud account control (data sovereignty, cost ownership) with managed Kubernetes operations. For agents: provision environments, deploy applications, manage databases, and trigger CI/CD workflows via API. Preview environments per pull request are first-class. Confidence is docs-derived.

REST API and CLI (porter CLI). Resources: apps, deployments, databases, clusters, jobs. POST /apps creates an app (connects to Git repo and defines build config). POST /apps/{id}/deploy triggers a deployment. GET /apps/{id} returns app status and deployment history. POST /databases provisions a managed database. GET /jobs lists CI/CD job runs. Porter CLI: porter apply -f porter.yaml for declarative infrastructure.

API token auth: Authorization: Bearer {token} header. Tokens from Porter dashboard → Account → API tokens. HTTPS enforced. No OAuth2. Project-scoped tokens. Porter connects to cloud accounts via IAM role (AWS) or service account (GCP/Azure).

Deployment failures surface in deployment logs (accessible via API or dashboard). Kubernetes pod restarts tracked in app status. Preview environment lifecycle managed by PR state. Porter infrastructure uptime at status.porter.run. Cloud account reliability tracks the underlying cloud provider.

docs.porter.run covers quickstart, CLI reference, REST API reference, deployment guides, and cloud provider setup. Getting started: create Porter account (free trial), connect cloud account, deploy first app from GitHub in under 20 minutes. Porter CLI for local development and CI/CD. Community via Porter Discord.