Announcing Port timer: TTL for ephemeral cloud environments, permissions and more
Blog post from Port
Port's Timer feature provides a solution for managing ephemeral cloud environments and temporary permissions through developer self-service actions, offering a time-to-live (TTL) mechanism to prevent resources from persisting indefinitely. This feature enables developers to set a TTL when creating temporary environments or permissions, which automatically deactivates them once the set time elapses, thus addressing concerns about uncontrolled cloud costs and messy environments. Developers can request manual approval for extensions beyond predefined TTLs, ensuring flexibility while maintaining security and compliance. Port Timer is integrated into customizable Port Blueprints, which represent various assets and support internal workflows that trigger actions, such as the destruction of temporary resources, upon expiration. This functionality aims to enhance the developer and DevOps experience by providing guardrails that facilitate efficient resource management and minimize operational chaos.