Porter enables you to package your application artifact, client tools, configuration and deployment logic together as an installer that you can distribute, and install with a single command.
Porter was accepted to CNCF on September 8, 2020 and is at the Sandbox project maturity level.
Recent Porter news

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February 22, 2023Latest tweets from Porter
@HowardvRooijen @ThorstenHans @davidfowl @get_porter @MikeLarah Take a look at the use cases for advanced dependencies in Porter in the design doc and reach out if you have feedback!
https://t.co/1FSw6AViSN
Porter v1.0.0 is out! 🎉
A HUGE thank you to all the contributors who made 1.0 happen.
You vetted releases, found bugs, designed features, setup the most unexpected testing environments, and implemented more than we ever thought possible. 💖
https://t.co/KItaJ4mGlC
Porter 1.0.0 release candidate 2 is out, fueled in part by copious amounts of pumpkin spice latte 🎃☕️
https://t.co/tkA0ArfDMU
It's now or never folks. Test it out and let us know how it goes!
We need your help! The porter 1.0.0 release candidate is out and ready for you to try.
Please send us any feedback, good or bad, so that we know it’s safe to cut the big one. 🔪🧀
https://t.co/6Fm3mZoeyN
Porter's v1.0.0-beta.2 release has some breaking changes and usability improvements you'll ❤️
* Reference images by tag and pin to the digest when the bundle is built
* Yaml friendly template delimiters
* Simplified verbosity flags
https://t.co/diCSkHvZMx
Templates in Porter v1.0.0-beta.2 have gotten a makeover! 💅
* Use the yaml friendly ${ } as a delimiter
* No more required wrapping quotes around templates
* Templates can resolve to boolean and numeric values instead of just strings
https://t.co/744kDw1ZUW
Friday July 1st @ThorstenHans is presenting at CloudLand
Porter: Author, Distribute, and Master Cloud Native Application Bundles
https://t.co/ri766QSgIO
Check it out! 🐱
Please congratulate our newest Porter maintainer, @GaysianB612!
They have been one of our biggest contributors since joining in January, and are helping us get to 1.0 much more quickly.
It's great having you on the team, @GaysianB612. 💖