Porter

Casixty (YC W25) utilizes AI to automate Reddit engagement for technical companies, helping them connect authentically with their target audiences. Co-founders Yoav Tamir and Eylon M. use Porter to get the experience of Vercel for their backend services. Looking for effortless deployments? Redeem the Porter startup deal here: https://lnkd.in/dkVafwqv

To kick off the new year, we've added support for some highly-requested features: 🐘 Adopting RDS and Aurora: Users can bring an existing RDS or Aurora datastore under Porter's management, so controls implemented by Porter’s one-click compliance feature would apply! 🌊 Helm Chart Add-ons: Users can install any helm chart that's available on public repositories. 🧠 Inference Tab Update: All Hugging Face models that run on vLLM are supported, including DeepSeek-R1. 🐕 Resource Sliders Upgrade: Resource sliders now show much more pertinent information. 🛣️ Path-based Routing: Porter.yaml now allows for path-based routing within a service.

Upshift (YC F24) is tooling for plugin systems, allowing users to turn their software product into an ecosystem. Co-founders Thomas Baker and Adam Suskin use Porter to leverage the benefits of Kubernetes without any DevOps overhead. Looking to use your cloud credits with the experience of a PaaS? Apply for our startup deal: https://lnkd.in/dkVafwqv

HYBRD is Strava for the modern athlete, bringing all training data, from cardio to strength, together by integrating with wearables and using AI to make tracking weightlifting easy. Co-founder and CTO Matthew Ruiters uses Porter to utilize cloud credits with the developer experience of a PaaS.

As we wrap up the year, we're excited to share some updates that enhance security, performance, and developer experience for our users: 🛃 Audit Logs: Porter admin users can now view audit logs for changes made by your team and the Porter team. 📊 Custom Autoscaling: Users can self-serve autoscaling based on custom metrics, like Sidekiq queue length. 🤑 Spot Instances for GCP: Spot instances are now available on GCP. 💵 Persistence for Grafana on AWS: Persistence through RDS storage is available for the Grafana add-on. 💼 GPU Jobs: Users can now schedule jobs on GPU instances. ⏭️ Cl Update: Rebuilding is no longer required if a pre-deploy fails. 🏃♂️ Even Faster Docker Build Times: If using Docker BuildKit, users can achieve an additional 3x improvement in build speeds when using Docker build caching. ⌨️ Resource Configuration Granularity: When configuring resource allocation for applications, input fields can be used in addition to the sliders. 🪺 View Pending Changes: Users can now preview and confirm app config changes before hitting deploy.

Symphony (YC F24) helps enterprises train their customer-facing employees using interactive AI voice simulations of real-world scenarios. Shobhit Srivastava uses Porter for scalable infra without spending time on DevOps.

🦋 Datastores Revamp: When spinning up new RDS databases, users have way more flexibility: more options for resources, storage size, Postgres version, and the ability to choose database and user names. 👭 Aurora Fast Clones for Preview Environments: AWS Aurora Fast Cloning can be used to instantly spin up preview environments with a database that mirrors production data. 🏝️ Non-HA Aurora Clusters: Users can use single-instance Aurora clusters to reduce costs where high availability isn't critical.