Agentic resource management
Provision cloud resources, microservices, secrets, and permissions through a single self-service layer, used by developers and AI agents alike. Platform teams define golden paths and approval workflows; every request, human or automated, follows company standards.
What is agentic resource management?
Resource management has two failure modes: too slow (ticket queues, multi-day SLAs) and too loose (developers and agents provisioning without guardrails, creating security gaps and cost overruns). Port solves both at once.
Developers submit requests through self-service actions. AI agents can do the same programmatically, using skills for cloud and on-prem provisioning. Either way, the same golden paths apply, approvals fire where the policy requires them, and every action is audited.
The result is a provisioning layer that moves at developer speed without sacrificing platform control.
Solution components
| Component | What it does |
|---|---|
| Golden paths | Pre-approved templates for common resource types (microservices, databases, S3 buckets, Kubernetes namespaces, secrets). The right choice is the easy choice. |
| Approval workflows | Automated approvals for low-risk requests, human review for high-impact changes. Dynamic permissions adapt based on context, time, and role. |
| Agent skills | Published skills that let AI agents (Cursor, Claude Code, custom agents) generate Terraform, open PRs, and provision resources programmatically, within the same guardrails as human requests. |
| Day 2 lifecycle | Self-service actions for scaling, updating, monitoring, and decommissioning resources after initial provisioning. |
| Resource catalog | Full visibility into provisioned resources, their owners, costs, relationships, and lifecycle status, across cloud and on-prem. |
How Port makes it work
- Catalog as source of truth. Every resource is modeled in Port. Agents and developers see the same catalog: service owners, environments, dependencies, and existing resources.
- Same governance for humans and agents. Approval workflows, RBAC, and dynamic permissions apply to every action regardless of who or what triggered it.
- Bring your own IaC. Port integrates with Terraform, Pulumi, Helm, ArgoCD, and custom scripts. The platform orchestrates; you keep control of the implementation.
Next steps
- Create golden paths: design standardized workflows for the most common resource types.
- Day 2 - manage the full resource lifecycle: scale, update, and decommission resources through self-service actions.
- Setup approval workflows: define when to automate and when to require human review.
- Self-service environments: let developers spin up dev, staging, and test environments on-demand.
Port integrates with AWS, GCP, Azure, Kubernetes, Terraform, GitHub, GitLab, Jira, Slack, and 50+ other platforms.