Changelog

Tailscale Integration, Cost Optimization Granularity, Helicone Add-on, and Improved App Alerts

We've partnered with Tailscale (the best VPN service for secure networks) and Helicone, a YC company and AI gateway for various LLMs. We've also improved the Cost Optimization feature for users with reserved instances on AWS, and made some ease-of-use improvements to Environment Groups and alerts for applications.

Shankar Radhakrishnan
June 26, 2025
2 min read

Tailscale Integration

We’ve partnered with Tailscale to create an updated, official integration for Porter.

Some benefits are finer-grained permissions through OAuth clients and automatic management of auth keys for your cluster, meaning no need for manual renewal.

Here are the docs.

Cost Optimization with Reserved Instances

Users with cost-optimized node groups can now restrict the instances that are selected to a subset of instance families.

If a user has reserved instances of a particular instance family, they can still take advantage of the dynamic optimization across the different EC2 sizes.

Helicone Add-on

Helicone (YC W23) is now available as an add-on on Porter. Helicone is an advanced observability platform, providing a unified view of performance, cost, and user interaction metrics for various LLM providers.

Validation for porter.yaml

Users can run porter apply validate -f porter.yaml to check the syntax and structure of porter.yaml files prior to deploying.

Environment Groups Update

The Environment Group view now has a Versions tab that allows you to see the ten previous versions of your environment groups.

This will allow for easier recovery if environment group changes need to be reverted.

Improved App Alerts

Previously, users had to click into each individual application to be able to see the notification count.

The apps list view now has notification counts for the most recent revisions of each application.

This allows users to get a high level overview of which apps are experiencing failures, restarts, etc.

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Datastores Revamp, Aurora Fast Clones for Preview Environments, and Non-HA Aurora Clusters
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Cost Explorer Tab (Beta), Aurora Fast Database Cloning, and Improved Docker Build Times
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Langfuse Add-on, Spot Instances, Filtering Slack Notifications by App, and Improved Security
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Usage Tab, ARM Instances, Multiple Node Groups, and Improved Slack Notifications
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Updated Add-ons and Secrets Management Integrations
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Introducing the Inference Tab and GPU metric-based Autoscaling
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Compliance with Oneleet - One-click SOC 2 and HIPAA on AWS
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Add-on Explorer, UI improvements, and minimum permissions for AWS
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