Run an image continuously

You can run an image built on Northflank from your linked Git repositories as a continuous service.

Enabling continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) will allow you to automatically run your latest code when a new commit is pushed to your repository's branches and/or pull requests.

Deployment services can be added to a pipeline to create complex workflows.

Alternatively you can build and run from one repository branch in a single combined service.

You can run an image built on Northflank continuously using a deployment service.

Create a new deployment

Create a new deployment service, and select Northflank as the deployment source. Expand link build service and choose the service and branch to deploy builds from. You can also create a deployment service with no build and link a build service later.

Edit an existing deployment

Navigate to an existing deployment service and select configure deployment from the service overview. Select Northflank as the deployment source, and choose a build service and branch to deploy builds from. Update to restart the service with the selected build.

Deploy builds using a pipeline and release flow

You can also create a pipeline with a release flow to deploy builds when the release flow is run. You can configure the release flow to deploy either specific images, such as promoting a build deployed in a previous stage of the pipeline, or the latest image from a build service or container registry.

You can build and run an image from a Git provider in a single service using a combined service. This is a self-contained CI/CD pipeline, and so cannot be used in pipelines like build and deployment services.

You can select a branch from a linked repository to build from, but cannot specify build rules to build from multiple branches or from pull request branches. With CI enabled, the service will automatically build the latest commit to your linked branch.

You can enable CD for your combined service to automatically deploy the latest build from your linked repository. Alternatively you can select commits to manually build and deploy from the builds page.

You can choose whether to build using a Dockerfile or a buildpack.

Read the getting started guide for more detail on combined services.