Building a catalog used to be a project. It meant months of tracking down owners, untangling dependencies, and manually piecing together a picture of your architecture. It was a tedious, thankless process that delayed the value of your Internal Developer Portal (IDP) before you even got started.
Now, it’s a coffee break.
We’re excited to introduce Magellan, our new AI-powered data engine designed to build your catalog and get your IDP live in minutes. Magellan automates the discovery of services, resources, and ownership across your stack, turning what was once a months-long project into a fast, guided experience.
A fast, intelligent onboarding experience
Magellan transforms onboarding from a manual chore into a simple, guided workflow that gets you to a fully functional IDP in minutes. Instead of leaving you with a blank slate, Magellan provides a fast, intelligent process that guides you through connecting key categories of tools from your version control system to your incident management and code quality platforms. It provides clear visibility into the health of each connection, with built-in testing and logging to ensure the data that powers your IDP is trustworthy from the start. Here’s how it works.
1. Connect your stack and let Magellan do the work
The process starts with a streamlined flow that guides you through connecting your most critical tools, such as your version control system, team provider, and incident management tools. As soon as your first integration is connected, Magellan begins working in the background to scan your repos and teams, making the entire process as fast as possible.
2. See your architecture, discovered automatically
Magellan builds a complete picture of your architecture. After discovering your services, it allows you to select what you want to track, and then automatically connects them to your teams, ownership data, and information from all of your other integrations. The result is the rich, contextual map of your entire engineering ecosystem that forms the living foundation of your IDP.
3. Solve ownership with AI-powered suggestions
Identifying service owners is often the hardest part of building a catalog. Magellan uses AI to analyze your data and suggest owners for your services. It also streamlines identity mapping, ensuring ownership is clear from day one and saving you countless hours of investigation.
4. Your fully functional IDP, ready in minutes
In a final review step, Magellan presents you with the complete catalog of services it created, showing all the resources and metadata it automatically bound to them. In just a few minutes, you’ve gone from a new account to a fully functional IDP, ready to drive your engineering standards with Scorecards.
A new standard for IDP adoption
Magellan represents a fundamental shift in how teams adopt an IDP. By turning a months-long manual project into a fast, automated experience, we’re making it easier than ever for organizations to get the visibility and control they need to drive their engineering standards from day one.
Ready to build your IDP in minutes? Learn more and schedule a demo of Cortex today.
