Preview environments

Northflank Previews

Spin up ephemeral, full-stack preview environments, including databases, microservices, and jobs, on every pull request.

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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.

Accelerate development with immediate previews triggered via Git PRs and feature branches. Move faster and fearlessly promote workloads between environments.

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.

David Cramer

Co-Founder and CPO @ Sentry

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Everything where you expect it to be

Optimized for developer happiness

We designed every part of Northflank with one goal: simplify complex infrastructure and give developers the controls they need. So they can focus on what they do best: building.

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

of containers

130B+

Requests processed

$24M+

Raised in funding

100k+

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.