Porter

Porter is a Kubernetes-powered PaaS that runs in your own cloud provider. Porter brings the Heroku experience to your own AWS/GCP account, while upgrading your infrastructure to Kubernetes. Get started on Porter without the overhead of DevOps and customize your infrastructure later when you need to.

Community and Updates

To keep updated on our progress, please watch the repo for new releases (Watch > Custom > Releases) and follow us on Twitter!

Why Porter?

A PaaS that grows with your applications

A traditional PaaS like Heroku is great for minimizing unnecessary DevOps work but doesn't offer enough flexibility as your applications grow. Custom network rules, resource constraints, and cost are common reasons developers move their applications off Heroku beyond a certain scale.

Porter brings the simplicity of a traditional PaaS to your own cloud provider while preserving the configurability of Kubernetes. Porter is built on top of a popular Kubernetes package manager helm and is compatible with standard Kubernetes management tools like kubectl, preparing your infra for mature DevOps work from day one.

Features

Basics

One-click provisioning of a Kubernetes cluster in your own cloud console
- ✅ AWS
- ✅ GCP
- ✅ Azure
Simple deploy of any public or private Docker image
Auto CI/CD with buildpacks for non-Dockerized apps
Heroku-like GUI to monitor application status, logs, and history
Application rollback to previously deployed versions
Zero-downtime deploy and health checks
Monitor CPU, RAM, and Network usage per deployment
Marketplace for one click add-ons (e.g. MongoDB, Redis, PostgreSQL)