Port x Komodor: Improving DevEx for Kubernetes Together

We’re pleased to announce a new way to integrate Kubernetes with Port, built by the team at Komodor using the Port Ocean open source extensibility framework. Kubernetes and containers revolutionized how apps are built and delivered, and yet, the intricate complexities of Kubernetes generally lead many organizations to want to abstract away any details related to the deployments. But if you’re truly following DevOps practices and something breaks, developers need to know what broke and how to fix it. 

This is the beauty of the Port x Komodor integration: Komodor simplifies Kubernetes management at scale, so operators and SREs can ensure all clusters are healthy and meet company standards. Port, meanwhile, provides a central source for developers to understand their apps from development to production. 

Combining the two enables developers and operators to be on the same page to know if apps are deployed correctly and if they’re healthy, and quickly fix issues when they arise, without the need to know Kubernetes inside and out.

The challenge of bringing Kubernetes details to internal developer portals

Aside from wanting to abstract away the complexities of Kubernetes, another big challenge is figuring out how to relate Kubernetes resources to development assets. It’s not terribly difficult to get Kubernetes objects into most internal developer portals (IDPs) — they’re expected to have rich data about development projects and assets. But connecting the development assets to live Kubernetes objects requires understanding how your repos and pipelines relate to nodes, pods, namespaces, and clusters.

In most IDPs, you have to rethink your Kubernetes deployment strategies to accomplish this, and include specific and precise metadata tags or annotations in order to make the connections between dev assets and Kubernetes objects. It’s a burdensome task that forces every deployment to be updated and is unforgiving if mistakes are made.

Port handles this differently. In Port, we can easily relate repositories to pipeline runs to deployments to live Kubernetes objects. Port is designed to fit the way your teams work so every team responsible for the delivery of applications has a single source of truth: developers know where their apps are running; operators know who is responsible for the apps running on their clusters.

The challenge of managing Kubernetes workloads for developers: Komodor to the rescue

Let’s say you have an end-to-end view of all your apps in Port, which is great. But what do you do when something breaks? 

Troubleshooting Kubernetes applications isn’t trivial even for seasoned Kubernetes pros, but especially for developers. This is the real power of the Port x Komodor integration!

Komodor + Port: A unified interface for code, services — and operations

Komodor solves that problem by embedding Kubernetes observability and incident response directly into Port’s service views, with no context-switching, nor kubectl. Developers receive much-needed Kubernetes context inside the tools the developers are already using, and guided steps to fix issues when they occur.

The Komodor integration provides a live operational lens into Kubernetes workloads — real-time health, deployment diffs, config changes, and actionable alerts — all tied to the services they own. When something breaks, Komodor provides guided remediation steps, along with AI-powered agent, Klaudia, to troubleshoot Kubernetes from within the same IDP they already use to ship code. Kubernetes goes from opaque infrastructure to a manageable part of the developer workflow.

In the example service below, the engineers for the Authorization service have immediate access to health and reliability issues surfaced by Komodor. They can go straight to Komodor monitoring dashboards, or better yet, click the Investigate button to access guided troubleshooting powered by Komodor’s AI assistant, Klaudia. 

At the same time, platform teams gain fleet-wide and multi-cluster visibility, granular RBAC policies and permissions enforcement, and a scalable Day-2 operations layer through built-in automated incident remediation playbooks — all wired into the portal experience. With Port + Komodor, you’re not just connecting tools — you’re closing the loop between deployment, observability, and remediation, while improving reliability engineering and MTTR all within your IDP.

Why Komodor + Port is a natural fit

Port gives teams the tools to build IDPs that are usable, governed, and extensible. Komodor brings Kubernetes into that equation — not as another silo, but as a native part of the experience.

Together, we are delivering:

• Real-time operational insights surfaced inside Port, so application teams, operators and all stakeholders are on the same page
• Secure, developer-friendly workflows that reduce reliance on DevOps
• Simplified, automated remediation support through tools like Klaudia, Komodor’s AI-powered assistant
• Full visibility into cluster health, change history, and service dependencies

With this native integration, Kubernetes becomes a transparent part of the platform, and no longer a mystery or black box. Developers gain autonomy, platform teams gain confidence, and the IDP evolves from a static interface into a living, operational product.

Port + Komodor = better developer experience, built on real operational insight.

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