Northflank’s 2024 PR: merged, approved, and deployed

2024 was a pivotal year for Northflank. We announced $22 million in funding and took huge steps toward our vision: making the developer experience seamless, no matter how complex their workloads get. By simplifying Kubernetes and cloud infrastructure, we’ve earned the trust of more than 35,000 developers—and some of the world’s largest development organizations.

We’re a fully remote team spread across six time zones, and people love telling us you can’t achieve this level of success or tackle something this complex without being in a traditional office. But here we are, growing faster than ever (and proving them wrong). It’s not like the Linux kernel or Kubernetes were cranked out in some cubicle farm either.

This past year, we shipped over 2,000 product enhancements (yes, we still sleep occasionally, unless our enterprise customers’ PagerDuties keep us awake). A big priority for us has been ensuring the Northflank platform runs exactly where you need it—whether that’s on hyperscalers, niche providers, or hardware you’ve got in-house.

This emphasis on “Bring Your Own Cloud” (BYOC) and enterprise-grade capabilities is core to our platform. Over the past year, we’ve laid the groundwork for Bring Your Own Kubernetes (BYOK) and our Self-Deployable Control Plane (SDCP), while expanding our global presence with additional PaaS regions.

For Fred and me, this journey has been over six years in the making. It’s been challenging at times and humbling always. Seeing the platform evolve and knowing how much more there is to create reminds us why we started this company in the first place. It still feels like we’re just getting started, and luckily, we’ve still got the same excitement as we did on day one.

This year, we hit a major milestone with our $22M founding announcement—a huge validation of our focus on product innovation, customer growth, and revenue growth.

Today, we’re proud to support over 1 million container deployments each month (and tripling our revenue, again 😇), thanks to new customers like Sentry, Weights, Writer, and hundreds more we’re excited to keep building on this momentum.

If that wasn’t enough humble bragging for one paragraph, we’re hiring across both Engineering and GTM roles. Below is a snapshot of some of the product announcements we’re particularly proud of (in case you care as much as we do about building great products).

1. Elevated developer experience: Enhanced preview environments, templates & release flows

We’ve been hard at work unifying preview environments, templates, and release flows to simplify the path from commit to preview to production release—even for the most complex projects (actually, especially for those). By streamlining pipelines and release alongside our core resource primitives, we’ve made every step more efficient without sacrificing flexibility. Nested templates now provide rich visual feedback, so you can see exactly how changes progress throughout your stack.

Enterprise customers benefit from audit logs and draft templates that mimic Pull Requests with approval workflows. We’ve also rolled out advanced networking capabilities, including cross-project private networking, VPN Tailscale support, path-based routing, and global CDN with Fastly per-port enablement.

That’s a lot of information for developers, developers, developers.
We’re doing this with a very precise purpose: Workload delivery, workload delivery, workload delivery.

2. Broad regional coverage & enhanced Cloud flexibility

We expanded Northflank’s global reach, adding PaaS regions in the U.S. (East, West), Europe (Amsterdam), and Asia (Singapore). Customers can now run workloads closer to their users, improving performance, reliability, and compliance.

We also leveled up our Bring Your Own Cloud (BYOC) capabilities. welcoming Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) and Civo to the mix alongside AWS, GCP, and Azure. With even more providers to choose from, teams now have the freedom to optimize for what matters most to them—whether that’s cost, performance, or regional requirements.

3. Radical enhancements to managed Kubernetes (AKS, EKS, GKE)

Northflank now offers advanced private cluster and node networking options, and streamlined onboarding. We’ve also nailed secure integration with existing cloud IAM setups (even if you’re juggling multiple accounts). Plus, teams can deploy self-hosted registries and tap into managed Kubernetes services—minus the usual headaches.

4. GPU support for AI & ML workloads

One of our biggest wins was adding GPU support, unlocking new opportunities for AI and ML workloads on Northflank.

From inference to model training, users can now run resource-intensive applications more efficiently.
Integrated tools like templates, deployments, logs, metrics, and CI/CD keep things simple, so you can focus on building great products.

We’re already seeing customers scale to hundreds of GPUs, which just goes to show the platform can handle a lot (and then some).

5. Bring Your Own Addon (BYOA)

BYOA lets teams deploy custom addons with Helm charts, enabling support for specialized databases and applications. Some of my favorites I’ve seen deployed are Flyte, Airbyte, and ClickHouse. It’s a simple way to tailor the platform to your needs while keeping operations consistent.

Northflank in 2025

As we wrap up the year, I feel grateful to everyone who’s been part of 2024—our team, our customers, our investors, and everyone who’s believed in what we’re building.

I can’t wait to show you what’s next. Here’s a sneak peek at what’s on the horizon for 2025:

• New regions and providers to keep you closer to your users
• ARM support and faster CPUs for better performance across the board
• Super-fast build caches and configurable database storage to give you even more control
• Niche workload support, BYOK, and self-hosted control plane
• Deeper integrations with your existing tools and cloud provider resources

So much to build. Let’s get to work.