Full-stack preview environments: fast and fully automated
Spin up ephemeral, full-stack preview environments—including databases, microservices, and jobs—on every pull request.
Accelerate development with immediate previews triggered via Git PRs and feature branches. Move faster and fearlessly promote workloads between environments.
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Accelerate Your Development Workflow
Instant full-stack previews
Automatically create full-stack preview environments—including databases, microservices, and jobs—for every feature branch. Triggered via Git PRs, these ephemeral environments let you test and iterate faster.
Triggered by Git pull requests
Integrate seamlessly with your Git workflow. Every pull request or feature branch can automatically spin up a complete preview environment, mirroring your production stack.
Ephemeral environments with full-stack support
Include everything from databases to microservices and background jobs. Reproduce complex environments effortlessly, 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.
Seamless integration with your workflow
Use Northflank’s intuitive interface or IaC templates to manage your preview environments. Reference version control metadata and automate repetitive tasks for a smoother developer experience.
Craft your workflows, not your workflow tool
Build workflows on day one, ready for preview environments and easy promotion. 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.
Enhance Developer Experience
Move faster with better tools
Empower your team with tools that enhance productivity. Northflank’s preview environments reduce friction, allowing developers to test features quickly and get instant feedback.
Fast feedback loops
Instantly share your work-in-progress with stakeholders and team members. Accelerate code reviews and QA testing by providing a live environment for every feature.
Simplified collaboration
Collaborate seamlessly across teams. Share URLs to your preview environments, making it easy for non-technical stakeholders to view and interact with new features.
Consistent environments
Eliminate the “it works on my machine” problem. Ensure everyone is testing in the same environment that mirrors production, reducing bugs and integration issues.
Security and Efficiency
Safe and cost-effective deployments
Manage resources efficiently with automatic cleanup and secure handling of secrets. Northflank ensures your preview environments are both safe and cost-effective.
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
Maintain an auditable history of changes. Roll back to previous versions effortlessly, ensuring stability and confidence in your deployments.
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.
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
Overcoming Common Development Challenges
Why preview environments matter
Building realistic preview environments is essential for modern development, yet it presents challenges that can slow down your workflow. Northflank addresses these issues head-on.
Complexity of full-stack previews
Setting up previews that include databases, microservices, and jobs is complex. Northflank simplifies this with automated, reproducible environments.
Seamless integration from Git to production
How do you build, test, and deploy new code? You need preview environments, promotion rules, and production-like staging environments. Northflank integrates with your CI/CD pipelines, ensuring smooth transitions from development to production.
Efficient scaling
How do you manage hundreds of ephemeral preview environments in a cost-effective way? Northflank scales up when needed and scales down when idle. You need a solution that saves you on resource costs, all automatically.
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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