Northflank Previews
Accelerate Your Development Workflow
Instant full-stack previews
Full-stack preview environments for every feature branch. Triggered via Git PRs, these ephemeral environments let you test and iterate faster.
Triggered by Git pull requests
Integrate with your Git workflow. Every pull request or feature branch automatically spins up a complete preview environment, mirroring your production stack.Truly full-stack
Include everything from databases to microservices and background jobs. Reproduce complex environments, enabling thorough testing and faster feedback loops.Snapshots and caching for speed
Leverage snapshots and caching to recreate environments rapidly. Reduce build times and resource usage. Focus your teams on development rather than infrastructure.Fits right in
Use Northflank’s intuitive UI or IaC templates to manage your preview environments. Reference version control metadata and automate repetitive tasks for better DevEx.Craft your workflows, not your workflow tool
Tools like Argo and Tekton require you to build the system before you can use it. This leads to “YAML wack-a-mole,” where you’re constantly rewriting YAML to ensure workflows incorporate changes.DEVEX, at the speed of light
Move faster with better tools
Northflank’s preview environments allow your team to test features quicker and get instant feedback.
Fast feedback loops
Instantly share your work-in-progress with other team members. Accelerate code reviews and QA testing by providing a live environment for every feature.Better teamwork
Share URLs to your preview environments, making it easy for non-technical teams like marketing to view and interact with new features.Consistent, every single time
Eliminate the “it works on my machine” problem. Everyone is testing in the same environment that mirrors production, reducing bugs and integration issues.Secure and Efficient
Ship safely, spend less
Forgotten environments cost money and mishandled secrets cost more. Northflank takes care of both, cleaning up idle resources and keeping credentials secure.
Automatic resource management
Set policies to automatically shut down idle preview environments. Save on costs by ensuring resources are used only when needed.Secure secret management
Keep your sensitive data secure with encrypted secret storage. Inject variables and arguments at runtime without exposing them in your codebase.Easy rollbacks and auditing
Access to an auditable history of changes. Roll back to previous versions and maintain stability and confidence in your deployments.
Testimonials from Sentry
From the front lines
Northflank is way easier than gluing a bunch of tools together to spin up apps and databases. It’s the ideal platform to deploy containers in our cloud account, avoiding the brain damage of big cloud and Kubernetes. It’s more powerful and flexible than traditional PaaS – all within our VPC. Northflank has become a go-to way to deploy workloads at Sentry.
Everything where you expect it to be
Optimized for developer happiness
Built for scale
You’re in good company
Since 2019, teams have used Northflank to run everything from enterprise products to high-scale AI infrastructure. Whether it’s one container or one thousand, Northflank holds the line.
Millions
Containers
130B+
Requests processed
$24M+
Raised in funding
50k+
Developers in production
330+
Availability zones
Overcoming Common Development Challenges
Why preview environments matter
Preview environments are essential for modern development, but they’re notoriously tricky to get right. Northflank makes them simple.
Complexity of full-stack previews
“Previews that include databases, microservices, and jobs are hard to configure. Northflank makes them automatic and reproducible.A straight line from Git to production
Getting code from your laptop to production takes more than a good CI/CD pipeline. You need preview environments, promotion rules, and staging that mirrors production. Northflank plugs into your existing workflow and handles the rest.Efficient scaling
Ephemeral environments shouldn’t cost like permanent ones. Northflank scales up on demand and shuts down when idle.
Testimonials from Pebblebed
From the front lines
Northflank is the first batteries-included developer platform that doesn’t suffer from the invisible ceilings that hover over its competitors. We could have built all of Slack with Northflank – and we would have, had it been available.
Features
Developer experience
Developer experience
- Choice of UI, CLI, APIs & GitOps
- Runs on AWS, GCP, Azure, Oracle
- Build re-useable templates
Polyglot platform
Polyglot platform
- Run any language or framework
- All envs, from preview to production
- Works with GitHub, GitLab and Bitbucket
Run your AI
Run your AI
- Scale GPUs across clouds
- Run untrusted code at scale
- Serve your inference & models
- Support fractional GPU workloads
We fixed Kubernetes
We fixed Kubernetes
- Kubernetes-ready app platform
- Run anywhere, on any Kubernetes cluster, on any cloud
- EKS, GKE, AKS, Rancher, OpenShift, Tanzu ready
Making Kubernetes
boring
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