App platform for Kubernetes: Make K8s work for your devs
Our developer platform comes with batteries included. We make Kubernetes easy, so you can focus on shipping software.
Developer experience matters. With Northflank, get the power of Kubernetes without the complexity. Build, deploy, and scale applications effortlessly—no Kubernetes expertise required.
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Why Developers Love Northflank
A complete app platform on Kubernetes
Get the simplicity of a PaaS with the power and flexibility of Kubernetes. Northflank unifies your development workflow, letting you move fast on any cloud without the usual headaches.
Build vs buy
Be productive immediately. Northflank abstracts the cloud with higher-level primitives, helping you sidestep the risks of DIY. Get a head start with ready-to-go solutions for CI/CD, deployments, observability, and more.
Move fast on any cloud
Deploy a container platform in your cloud account in 30 minutes or less. Northflank seamlessly integrates with EKS, GKE, AKS, and most flavors of Kubernetes.
Language agnostic
Build and deploy anything with a Dockerfile or Buildpack. No matter your language or framework, just add a Dockerfile and deploy as a Northflank service.
Exceptional developer experience
Give your teams the best developer experience. Northflank eliminates the learning curve of Kubernetes and YAML manifests, so you can focus on coding.
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.
Streamline Your Deployment Pipeline
From Git to production in no time
You don’t have to be a Kubernetes expert to use Kubernetes like one. Northflank automates your deployment pipeline, so you can focus on building great software.
Build golden paths
Pipelines and automatic preview environments are your golden path to production. Codify your workflows and graduation policies, storing them in Northflank or Git. Automatically collect logs and metrics on every workload.
Fast builds for faster feedback
Snappy container builds, preview environments and release workflows speed up feedback cycles for stakeholders, QA, and code reviewers.
Environment dashboard
Monitor the state of all your resources with pipeline overviews, health status, and alerts. Segment your resources into projects or development, staging, and production environments.
Clean up dangling resources automatically
Easily spin up and down clusters with auto-scaling and templates. Automatically provision preview environments on commit. Avoid dangling resources with fine-grained usage and billing data and easily configurable retention periods for resources and backups.
Security and Reliability at Core
Guard rails & security
Focus on innovation while we handle the heavy lifting of security and reliability.
Easy rollbacks
Push to production with confidence, knowing you can roll back any release in a matter of seconds.
Secure secrets management
Securely store your secrets outside of GitOps using Northflank’s secure engine to inject variables and arguments at runtime.
Beyond provisioning
Traditional IaC stops at provisioning and ignores your apps. Northflank handles infrastructure and extends codification to pipelines and apps. Manage everything from one flexible interface.
Robust foundations
As an engineering team, you need the best foundation for building and deploying apps on Kubernetes. Northflank provides that foundation with all the controls needed for complex applications.
Optimised for Developer Happiness
A developer experience like no other
Northflank simplifies complex infrastructure, providing a robust control plane with real-time updates. Access controls are intuitive, and everything is designed to keep developers focused on what they do best: writing code.
Experience, trust and scale
You’re in good company
Northflank is a robust, scalable platform built by and trusted by developers worldwide since 2019. Whether you’re running 1 or 1,000 services within a single project, we seamlessly support your workload and infrastructure requirements.
1.5M+
Monthy containers
100B+
Requests processed
300+
Availability zones
25k+
Developers in production
$24M+
Raised in funding
What’s Holding You Back?
Challenges of building an app platform on Kubernetes
Building your own platform can be a daunting task. From the complexities of Kubernetes to the pitfalls of DIY solutions, many obstacles can impede your progress.
Limitations of traditional PaaS
Many PaaS solutions are great for getting started but lack scalability. As you grow, you need more control and flexibility without sacrificing the developer experience.
Any language, any framework
Your platform is only as powerful as the workloads it supports. Northflank is truly a polyglot, supporting all languages and frameworks. Not just Next.js. Not just MySQL. Not just AWS.
Avoid the DIY trap
Building an Internal Developer Platform from scratch can take years. You need to work at a higher level to deliver value quickly and avoid getting stuck in the complexities of infrastructure.
Your platform is a product
When you build a platform, you're delivering a product to developers. Balancing abstraction with control is a major design challenge. Additionally, DIY platforms come with other difficulties: ensuring great developer experience (DX), customer success, developer adoption, multi-tenancy, security, and more.
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.
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