POWER UP PORT WITH KRATIX
Port provides a powerful portal-as-a-service which comes out of the box with usability, user management, and more. Like most UIs, the experience is good for users (developers), but the administration can be challenging for those who operate Port.
Combining Syntasso Kratix Enterprise (SKE) and Port enables you and your team to:
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Ship faster: Automatically expose the same platform capabilities via Port UI and automation scripts.
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Reduce costs: Manage services in a consistent, testable, and versioned format.
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Deliver safer: Ensure compliance per resource and across the organisation.
See it in action
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Portals are the gateway to your platform
Are you finding that users are excited to start with your portal but then reach out to the platform team or directly to the third-party tools for all but the most simple use cases? Do you find that changes to the Port self-serve actions require a lot of coordination to make sure users run the updated actions for rollout?
By providing dynamic and easy-to-configure workflows, Syntasso Kratix Enterprise enables self-service actions to be both more powerful and more maintainable.
Iterate faster with self-service actions via UI, API, or CLI.
Reduce portal maintenance with auto-configuration.
Make day 1 and day 1000 a breeze for a single resource or a whole fleet.
Resist Portal Decay:
Invest Today for Your Platform’s Tomorrow
Today
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Early portal adoption is promising, but long-term use cases aren't supported
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Self-service action updates require coordination with users
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Lack of consistency in portal and service configuration creates a maintenance headache
With Syntasso Kratix Enterprise
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A single action can manage everything from notifications to infrastructure to business reporting
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Services can be queried and updated individually or centrally as a fleet
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Portals can focus on the display of a consistent platform API format
Port provides “one interface to rule them all”. That single pane of glass allows users to view everything from their service health to their code to-do list and more.
The power of packaging things together for lower cognitive load isn't just for end-user interfaces, though. If the people supporting application developers still need to configure, secure, manage, and operate tens or hundreds of locations behind the scenes, the portal becomes just a local solution—not the organizational powerhouse it could be.
How Does Syntasso Kratix Enterprise Integrate with Port?
Syntasso Kratix Enterprise (SKE) acts as the platform orchestrator between Port and your infrastructure layer. This often invisible glue is what enables platform engineering teams to create and offer everything-as-a-service (XaaS) through UI, API, or CLI interactions without tripling the implementation cost.
The combination of Port's dynamic Data Model and easy access self-service actions creates a playground of possibilities that can quickly become a prison of complexity without the proper visibility and consistency of services. With Syntasso Kratix Enterprise, your organisation can depend on Port for what it does best – providing a service catalogue, technical documentation, and developer hub – while platform engineering teams compose high-value services with consistency as Kratix Promises for day one, day two or day two thousand.
Why Should You Care About Investing in the Platform behind the Portal?
Application
Developers 👩💻
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Platform-supported dependencies reduce user maintenance
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Faster, more efficient access to the tools you need
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Quicker access to new features from the SKE Marketplace
Platform
Engineers 👷🏽
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Maintain your portal with GitOps rather than ClickOps
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Reduce sprawl with an easy and consistent service model
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Balance control through individual actions with centralised access
Organisation
Leaders 👩✈️
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Reduce toil with automatic portal configuration
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Support application development without
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Overwhelming Platform Engineers
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Apply and track compliance and governance across the organisation
LET YOUR PLATFORM FULFIL ITS PROMISE
CHOOSE SERVICES TEAMS ALREADY LOVE
Enable teams to ship software quicker by composing existing applications, services, and infrastructure components available as Promises in the Kratix Marketplace.
Deploy Redis, AWS S3 buckets, cert-manager, and more within minutes.
SELF-SERVE VIA API, PORTAL, OR GITOPS
Get value from your platform by using the most appropriate user experience for the task at hand or the user's requirements.
Integrate services using APIs, deploy apps via a portal, and configure infrastructure using GitOps.
FREE ENGINEERS TO CREATE & SHARE
Enable multiple teams to co-create your platform using the popular inner source model of contribution.
Centalised platform engineering teams can source, test, and integrate services from across your organisation.
TAME THE FLEET: AUTOMATE WORKFLOWS
Encode and share policy, guardrails, and compliance requirements in Workflows.
Centralised platform teams can ensure policy is enforced globally, manage upgrades, and correct configuration drift as the underlying compute and cluster fleet scales.
TALK WITH AN EXPERT
Take your first step towards
powering Port with Kratix
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Go Faster
Provide Promises for
“everything as a service”
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Decrease risk
Automate manual processes in reusable Workflows
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Increase efficiency
Manage your digital platform on day 1, day 2, and day 2000
