Northflank

A developer platform for building, deploying, and scaling applications and workloads.

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Launched
Jul 2020
Category
Server Hosting
Sub-Category
Cloud Developer Platform
Pricing Model
Freemium
Starts From
Free
Platforms
Web
Founder
Will Stewart and Frederik Brix

Target Audience

Startup developersSaaS foundersDevOps engineersFull-stack developersAI developersMachine learning teamsDevelopment teamsCloud infrastructure teams

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What is Northflank

Northflank is a cloud-native developer platform for building, deploying, and scaling applications, jobs, databases, and AI workloads. It provides managed cloud infrastructure as well as Bring Your Own Cloud options for AWS, GCP, Azure, and other supported infrastructure.

Overview

Northflank provides a platform for building and running containerized workloads with UI, API, CLI, and GitOps workflows. Developers can connect GitHub, GitLab, or Bitbucket repositories, build with Dockerfiles or Buildpacks, and deploy services, jobs, databases, and preview environments. The platform includes autoscaling, load balancing, persistent storage, logs, metrics, secrets, pipelines, backups, custom domains, automatic TLS, and role-based access control. Northflank also supports GPU workloads for AI inference, training, and other compute-heavy applications. Teams can run workloads on Northflank's managed cloud or deploy through Bring Your Own Cloud to AWS, GCP, Azure, Civo, and other supported Kubernetes environments.

Who should and shouldn't use it

Should use it
  • You want a full developer platform covering builds, deployments, databases, jobs, and observability.
  • You need GPU infrastructure for AI or machine learning workloads.
  • You want usage-based cloud pricing instead of traditional seat-based pricing.
  • You want the option to move between managed infrastructure and your own cloud accounts.
  • You need preview environments, CI/CD pipelines, autoscaling, and managed databases in one platform.
Shouldn't use it
  • You only need simple static-site hosting.
  • You want a completely serverless platform with no infrastructure concepts.
  • You do not need advanced deployment, database, GPU, or infrastructure capabilities.
  • You prefer a basic hosting product over a broader developer platform.

Key Features

  • Application build and deployment
  • Jobs and scheduled workloads
  • Managed databases and queues
  • Dockerfile and Buildpack builds
  • Continuous integration and continuous deployment
  • Preview environments
  • Deployment pipelines
  • GitOps and infrastructure-as-code templates
  • Autoscaling
  • Horizontal and vertical scaling
  • GPU workloads
  • Persistent volumes
  • Custom domains and automatic TLS
  • Load balancing
  • Private networking
  • Secrets management
  • Real-time logs and metrics
  • Log forwarding
  • Monitoring and alerting
  • Database backups and restores
  • Role-based access control
  • UI, API, and CLI access
  • Bring Your Own Cloud
  • Multi-region deployments
  • Kubernetes support

Integrations Supported

GitHubGitLabBitbucketDocker HubGitHub Container RegistryGitLab Container RegistryAmazon ECRGoogle Artifact RegistryAzure Container RegistryDatadogNew RelicSplunkPrometheusGitHub ActionsGitLab CIBitbucket PipelinesAWSGoogle CloudMicrosoft AzureCivoCloudflareFastlyCloudFrontSlackDiscord

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