Bring Your Own Cloud /

Use other cloud providers with Northflank

You can bring your own cloud to use all the features of the Northflank platform on other cloud hosting providers.

Connect your account with Northflank to create and manage Kubernetes clusters in your own cloud account, and gain complete control of your infrastructure, data storage, security, and auditing.

You will use your existing billing relationship with your cloud provider for all resources consumed by your clusters. See cloud provider billing for more information.

Click here to start deploying into your cloud account.

Integrate your cloud account and a deploy cluster

After creating an integration with your chosen cloud provider you can deploy clusters into your cloud account.

You can create integrations with the following providers:

Provider	Engine	Available Nodes and Regions
Google Cloud Platform	Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE)	View on Northflank
Amazon Web Services	Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS)	View on Northflank
Azure	Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)	View on Northflank
Civo	Civo Kubernetes	View on Northflank
Oracle	Oracle Kubernetes Engine (OKE)	View on Northflank

Integrate your Google account

Integrate your Google Cloud Platform account to create and manage Kubernetes clusters on GCP with Northflank.

Integrate your Amazon account

Integrate your Amazon Web Services account to create and manage Kubernetes clusters on AWS with Northflank.

Integrate your Azure account

Integrate your Microsoft Azure account to create and manage Kubernetes clusters on Azure with Northflank.

Integrate your Civo account

Integrate your Civo account to create and manage Kubernetes clusters on Civo with Northflank.

Integrate your Oracle account

Integrate your Oracle Cloud Infrastructure account to create and manage Kubernetes clusters on OCI with Northflank.

Configure your cluster

Configure your cluster to handle builds and deployments according to your requirements.

Select your cluster's build infrastructure

Build on your cluster, on Northflank's managed cloud, or choose a separate build cluster.

Manage your request modifiers

You can tune the minimum resources requested by pods deployed to your cluster to balance performance and node usage.

Retain cluster volumes

Choose to keep volumes and volume backups when you delete a cluster.

Create custom resource plans

Create custom plans for your team to deploy workloads and build code on your own clusters.

Deploy and scale node pools

Deploy and scale node pools of different node types in as many availability zones as you require and configure scheduling rules and autoscaling to optimise node usage.

Deploy node pools

Configure and deploy node pools on a Kubernetes cluster with Northflank.

Scale node pools

Set your node count manually, or configure autoscaling to manage demand and optimise costs.

Create node pools with spot instances

Use spot instances to reduce costs for non-critical workloads.

Schedule workloads to specific node pools

Allow or disallow different types of workloads from being scheduled on a node pool.

Deploy workloads to your cluster

Let Northflank automatically assign workloads to node pools with capacity, or use affinity rules to deploy workloads to specific node pools to projects deployed in your cluster.

Configure node pools to use spot instances to reduce cost, or deploy across multiple availability zones for high availability.

Deploy workloads to your cluster

Deploy services, jobs, and addons to your own cluster, and configure workloads to schedule on specific node pools.

Run GPU workloads

Deploy GPU workloads on Northflank for AI, machine learning, HPC workloads, and other tasks.

Deploy workloads to spot instances

Tag workloads to deploy them to spot instances.

Deploy workloads with high availability

Schedule a resource with zonal redundancy for high availability applications.

Monitor and manage your cluster

Monitor your cluster's usage, health, and deployed workloads.

Manage your Kubernetes cluster

Manage your clusters on other cloud providers using Northflank.

Observe your Kubernetes cluster

Monitor your Kubernetes clusters, node pools, and nodes on other cloud providers using Northflank.

Cordon and drain nodes

Cordon and drain node pools to manage and migrate workloads.

Cloud provider billing

Monitor your spend for using Northflank in your own cloud provider accounts.