Right size your cloud
Optimise resource density and eliminate under-utilisation with built-in bin packing.
Worried about traffic spikes? Don’t be! Set your minimum and maximum replica counts, and let auto-scaling do the heavy lifting during high traffic events.
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Your cloud should be efficient & elastic
Compute optimally
Maximise your cloud spend with dynamic elasticity. Scale up to meet increased demand for your microservices and databases, ensuring optimal performance when you need it most.
Maximise container density
Eliminate under-utilised nodes with advanced bin-packing algorithms for maximum container density per server. Optimise your microservices and databases with precisely the right amount of compute.
Auto-scaling based on demand
Easily configure auto-scaling based on thresholds for CPU, Memory, and Requests Per Second (RPS). When the traffic pours in, Northflank responds.
Scale horizontally & vertically
Scale horizontally by adding more instances of your service with automatic load balancing, or scale vertically by upgrading your compute plan to access more CPU & memory capacity.
Scheduled jobs
Run compute jobs on demand or a custom schedule. With automatic infrastructure scaling, resources are only provisioned while your job runs, optimising costs. Use affordable spot instances for lower-priority workloads.
Your choice for hot & cold data storage
Storage flexibility
Easy access to managed service options for object storage, relational databases, message queues, and in-memory databases. Set up in seconds with just a few clicks.
Addons like “no ops” cloud databases
Get your favourite data store as a managed service on your Kubernetes cluster. Pick from a catalogue of options including Redis, Postgres, MySQL, MongoDB, RabbitMQ, or MinIO.
Volumes
Start with as little as 4GB and scale up to 1TB+. Quickly resize persistent volumes attached to your services as your storage requirements increase.
Storage tiers
Select the disk size, performance, and price that suits your workload. Choose from HDD and SSD storage options.
Prevent run away infrastructure spending
Infrastructure guardrails & scaling
Automated scaling is scary without a safety net. Set limits, receive alerts, and stay in control.
Billing awareness & cost analysis
Set spending alerts and monitor expenses at the workload level for precise cost control. View current usage by service, project, or account.
Min/max your nodes
Define minimum and maximum node limits for autoscaling. Scale fearlessly, knowing a runaway process won’t spiral out of control overnight.
Scale by resource usage
Trigger autoscaling with thresholds on CPU, memory, and RPS. Right size your compute, and rest easy knowing auto-scaling has you covered if there’s a traffic spike.
Universal traffic management
Enjoy a fully managed and Istio & Linkerd experience with battle-tested service mesh features. Secure data in transit with mutual TLS encryption and strong identity-based authentication and authorization.
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
Don’t break the bank, OR your workloads
Challenges for right sizing
You need control over how and when you scale. How do you create control loops that balance performance, latency, and cost?
Reliability through traffic surges
Keeping workloads online and running smoothly at all times can be challenging, particularly with fluctuating traffic. As demand increases, maintaining performance and reliability is critical. Scalability also needs to be codified and designed with good UX, so it’s easy to use while you’re in the heat of the moment.
Workload focused scaling for fluctuating demand
As demand grows, configuring scaling settings for each workload becomes essential. Without effective auto-scaling tools it’s difficult to burst to higher capacity when needed. At the same time maintaining efficiency during steady-state loads requires minimising infrastructure to match the workload precisely, avoiding unnecessary costs.
Dangling resources
Managing resources effectively requires a high-level view of what’s running and how it’s performing. Easier said than done. A granular workload view should surface metadata like costs, runtime duration, and deployment details. Resource cleanup, including lingering scheduled jobs to temporary previews, is essential to maintain efficiency.
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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