Port x Amplication: Announcing a new integration

We’re happy to announce a powerful new integration between Port and Amplication. This integration allows platform and engineering teams to quickly create, manage, and standardize services while tracking technical debt in real time, using Amplication’s automated backend service creation with Port’s internal developer portal (IDP) governance and self-service actions.

We’re also excited that the Amplication team used our Ocean open source extensibility framework to create and deliver this integration. Ocean greatly simplifies the process of writing a new integration for Port — your only requirement as a developer is to implement the logic that will query your desired third-party system. Ocean then provides abstractions and other commonly required functionality to interact with Port's REST API. 

We’re excited to have partners building and delivering these integrations and helping us to improve Ocean as a community-driven effort. Port encourages members of our community to contribute their own integrations, as well as improve existing integrations and the core of the Ocean framework itself.

Why this integration matters

One of the top use cases for Port and internal developer portals is to streamline service creation, while also maintaining and enforcing your standards and best practices. Engineering teams want to move fast, but also make sure everything is stable and avoid the need to rework things later. With Amplication and Port working together, teams can:

• Create backend services effortlessly using pre-configured templates.
• View and manage services at an individual, team, and organization levels centrally within Port.
• Monitor and act on technical debt to ensure long-term maintainability.

How it works

1. Rapid service creation with pre-built templates

Developers don’t need to know all the ins and outs of defining backend services or attempt to manually follow the team or company standards. Instead, Amplication's integration allows your platform engineers to manage service templates, which can then be used directly within Port. These templates include:

• Pre-configured architectures
• Best practices and company standards baked into the service structure
• Automated setup for APIs, databases, and authentication

When a new service is needed, developers can simply select a template within Port, and use a self-service action to deploy via Amplication, reducing setup time and ensuring consistency across the organization.

2. Seamless management and governance in Port

Port is the central source of truth for software, services, APIs, and more, which includes all services created with Amplication. Keeping up with this information across large, distributed engineering groups is next to impossible manually, without automations and integrations throughout the SDLC, and Port provides these connections. Teams gain visibility into all their services, including metadata such as:

• Service descriptions
• URLs and dependencies
• Ownership details

By integrating Port’s governance capabilities, platform teams can standardize the development lifecycle, making it easier to maintain large-scale infrastructures. Collaboration is also much easier when teams can find others in the organization who may be working on similar projects and can easily find service details and owners. 

3. Avoiding technical debt and noisy alerts

A key benefit of Amplication’s integration is proactive technical debt monitoring and template updates. Let’s face it, there are many instances where services and resources are deployed, and then they sit. Best practices and standards change; deployed services drift over time. Before you know it, it’s a nightmare to realign deployed systems with the latest standards. Amplication is a huge help here! 

• Platform teams can update service templates with new technology, improved dependencies, or updated best practices.
• When a new version of a template is released, owning teams receive a notification about the update. 
• The owning team can then request a pull request to automatically update their service with the latest improvements.
• Port can bring all your developers’ updates and changes into one central view, so they don’t have to hop from tool to tool to stay on top of the latest updates.
• This ensures that all services remain aligned with the latest standards, while giving teams control over when and how updates are applied.
• With Port, you can create scorecards that align with the latest best practices defined in Amplication, further ensuring engineers are clear what is expected and how they stack up.

Amplication and Port ensure all your services stay up to date with modern technologies and security updates, reducing the burden of tech debt accumulation by making updates manageable and incremental. Give developers autonomy while allowing platform teams to enforce best practices.

You can learn more about the integration in the Port documentation and on Amplication’s blog.

What’s next?

We’re excited to be working with the Amplication team and further expanding the use cases we have together. We have some great ideas, like allowing developers to modify existing services through Port, and introducing deeper analytics and insights to enhance service observability. 

We’d love to hear your ideas, too! Share your thoughts with us on our public roadmap.

Get started today

If you're already using Amplication and Port, this integration is available now. Start creating standardized backend services effortlessly while maintaining full control over your infrastructure.

For detailed setup instructions, check out our documentation on Amplication.

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