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Date Published
Author
Tom Tankilevitch
Word count
916
Language
English
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None

Summary

The Azure Exporter, developed by Port, is a tool designed to integrate Azure cloud resource data into internal developer portals, enhancing the ability of developers to manage cloud resources efficiently. Built on the open-source Ocean extensibility framework, the exporter allows the automatic importation of various Azure resources such as Resource Groups, AKS, and Virtual Machines, while offering smart filters and transformation capabilities to map these resources to Port Entities. It operates as an Azure ContainerApp and supports real-time updates by listening to Azure subscription events, facilitating event-driven automations like sending Slack notifications or triggering PagerDuty incidents based on changes in resource status. This tool aims to keep software catalogs current and improve proactive management of Azure infrastructures by leveraging metadata defined in Port's blueprints, thus enabling seamless integration and automation within Azure environments.