Bun is changing the game. Super fast upstream latency (2-3ms), making it a serious contender for production workloads as support expands. Great job
@jarredsumner
. Getting a deployment setup on Northflank was fun.
📣Northflank's new changelog is now available, showcasing a range of features & enhancements designed to optimize your
#PaaS
experience. Stay tuned for additional updates on the horizon!🌐🔧
Explore here:
#Kubernetes
#devtools
#PlatformEngineering
Heroku is in the news again. Sunsetting features and discontinuing free Dynos. If you're looking for a comprehensive and production ready alternative to Heroku check out Northflank.
Northflank enables developers to easily build, run, and operate their web applications, microservices, and databases from a single real-time interface and API.
Introducing Navigation 2.0! We’ve completely overhauled our platform navigation to make it quicker and easier to understand where you are and get to where you need to be in our UI.
Learn more on our latest changelog:
Looking to deploy MySQL or Postgres with scaling, backups, observability, and forking for preview environments? Run on managed infrastructure or inside your own cloud account.
🚨 New website alert 🚨 Check it out to learn more about our complete golden path to production.
#Northflank
🌟 What's New:
✅ Sleek, modern design
✅ Comprehensive feature breakdowns
✅ Centralised portal for developer content and resources
Introducing Autoscaling on Northflank!
Say goodbye to manual intervention and hello to seamless scaling, right-sized workloads, and increased reliability. What will you build with the time and money saved?
#Northflank
#Autoscaling
#PlatformEngineering
1) made our infrastructure 100x cheaper to run
2) got invited to present at SIGGRAPH
3) called mum, did archery, watched a beautiful sunset, and talked with friends until almost 3 am (last emotion i felt before pausing consciousness was fulfillment)
🚀 Northflank Expands Global Reach: Welcome Amsterdam and Singapore!
We're thrilled to announce the addition of Amsterdam and Singapore to our globally available compute regions.
We’re thrilled to announce we've joined the
#CNCF
and
#Linux
Foundation! These organizations play an important role in democratizing OSS Software and driving the development of technologies that enable developers to more easily deliver cloud-native apps.
Exciting update! 🚀
We created detailed deployment guides for
@AutometricsDev
on
@northflank
!
Deploy the Microframework effortlessly, get detailed app metrics, and boost performance.
Hello world. 51 changelogs in 12 months and many more to come! Today we're releasing our new free developer projects. Experiment and deploy your services, jobs and databases at zero cost and be ready to scale as you grow 🚀
We are headed to Chicago! Northflank will be at
#KubeCon
+
#CloudNativeCon
November 6-9th. Come see us at booth Q24 near the CNCF sponsorship lounge. You won’t want to miss the giveaway we have planned…
Looking to implement dark mode or a unique brand into an existing product?
In this blog post,
@tdjsnelling
talks about why you might want to add a choice of theme to your React app, and how you can achieve it using styled-components. Demo app included 🚀
Northflank announces support for managed
@RabbitMQ
! 🚀
RabbitMQ is the most widely deployed open-source message broker and we're happy to offer it as part of our existing addons.
Get started with a one-click deployment today.
The team at Northflank has gotten into the Christmas spirit by solving
#AdventOfCode
every day. For day 9, we stayed safe and managed to avoid the lava 🌋
Check out some of our solutions on GitHub.
#python
#typescript
#nodejs
Things are getting wild over here…
This month’s changelog includes:
✅Wildcard certificate generation & redirects
✅Added flexibility in templates
✅UI Upgrades
Check out the full changelog to learn about everything new at Northflank:
And the winner of our Nvidia GeForce RTX 4080 is…
🎊Ticket# 010375🎊
Congratulations!!! Please send us a private message to schedule a time to pick up your prize at our booth, or orchestrate shipping.
If the prize is not claimed by 1pm CT we will redraw.
We are excited to release persistent container volumes. Great for persisting data across service restarts and perfect for deploying
#clickhouse
,
#materialized
,
#meilisearch
and stateful services via Docker image & git. Simply attach volumes today.
We're excited to release disk snapshot backups powered by the Kubernetes CSI Driver. Incremental database backup and restores for MongoDB, Redis, PostgreSQL, MySQL and MinIO - extending our existing support for native backup dumps 💾🚀😎
We are excited to present the last changelog of 2021.
Today we are announcing significant enhancements to our Git integration, such as support for multiple account links per provider, conditional builds based on what files changed and new API endpoints.
Introducing backup schedules for databases and stateful workloads. Flexible incremental and native backups can be scheduled to meet your data recovery requirements, ensuring production workloads can be restored immediately.
Check out this blog post where we explore integrating and authenticating applications with GitHub Apps and OAuth, their difference and what to watch out for.
Check out this guide on how to deploy a KeyDB database on Northflank - using their official Docker image and persistent volumes.
@Reallkeydb
is a drop in replacement for Redis. Get setup and start using it within minutes.
#KeyDB
#Redis
#queue
🌐 We have introduced end-to-end HTTP/2, reducing latency and minimising protocol overhead. gPRC is now also available in your services, great for lightweight microservices where efficiency is critical.
#http2
#grpc
#containers
#deploy
#networking
🚢 Shipped this week:
🚀 Caching for Docker & Buildkit builds to speed up build and release cycle
🔃 Now easily switch your Git source on existing services and jobs
📄 Updated network policy, database upgrades, and GHCR documentation
We’re excited to announce
@Slack
,
@Discord
and raw webhook integrations! 🎉
Set up notifications for your Northflank builds, cron job runs and billing alerts in your favourite tools, or create custom webhook handlers.
Deploying a Node.JS Express application with build and deployment in under two minutes on Northflank. Get started for free on 🚀
#NodeJS
#Express
#100DaysOfCode
Happy start of a new month! Here is what we released recently:
⏫ Upgrades to Northflank JS client and CLI with updated API endpoints
🎨 ANSI escape sequence formatting on logs
📖 More documentation
Container shell access for services and jobs is now available on Northflank via our UI, CLI and API. This new feature will enhance your debug operations 🚀
We added configurable ephemeral storage, broadening the workloads that can be run on Northflank 🚀 We also expanded the PostgreSQL addon capability with
@PostGIS
.
In this guide, we show you how to connect Node.js to MinIO with TLS using the AWS S3 client. We also provide you with the necessary scripts to get started. 📃
Get your
@MinIO
server running on Northflank today!🚀
Finally, for Metabase itself we create a new deployment service deploying metabase/metabase:latest from DockerHub.
The HTTP port 3000 was automatically detected and we configured the compute to 0.5 vCPU and 1 GB to give it more resources 🚀
The Northflank UX and onboarding is now even better! Start with one-click example deployments including databases, docker images, cron jobs and template repos, and get a healthy deployment in seconds.
@NestJS
is an open-source, progressive and fast growing framework for building efficient & scalable Node.js applications.
Check out
@thomassmyth3141
's guide that walks you through creating and deploying NestJS on Northflank.
Second, create a secret group to connect our Postgres to Metabase. Configure environment variables to inherit the Postgres JDBC connection string 🤩
This means it gets automatically injected into our environment and we don't have to manually copy and paste it anywhere.
This week we introduced secret files, the same DX as ConfigMaps and Docker -v file mounting. This allows writing of files to specific paths in your runtime container or build process.
#configmaps
#volume
#secretfiles
In this guide, we show you how easy it is to deploy Strapi v4 on Northflank - using Postgres and persistent volumes.
Get your Strapi instance live in minutes! 🎉
🚢 Last week we shipped parallel builds for the same commit, branch or PR and the ability to create jobs without a configured deployment source. We also worked on other fixes that you can check out in our changelog 📈
Introducing secret templating enabling you to quickly create variables from existing secrets and aliases with smart auto-completion 🔐
For example, quickly create a custom database connection string from your secrets. Also works with our monaco-editor 🚀
We've got some exciting updates this week:
🔎 Easily search resources on all tables
🚀 Database upgrades for MySQL (v8.0.27) and Redis (v6.2.6)
🧑🎓 Northflank student developer pack
📚 Guides to deploy CRA,
@Strapijs
,
@Ghost
and
@PayloadCMS
First, we create an addon (Postgres database) on Northflank. Deployed with TLS and private networking so only Metabase can access it.
To get started we went with the smallest compute plan with 4 GB of storage and one replica.
Working with multiple microservices, dependent jobs and databases can be complex.
We take another step to simplifying rolling out interdependent workloads & migrations with the ability to automatically trigger jobs when the source image changes 🚀
@ajcwebdev
Your service has a port configured, but it is set to private. Via the networking page toggle the existing port to public. As soon as this is done you should see the deployment URL in the service dashboard header. Video below:
2️⃣ Choose the name, configure RAM & CPU and hit Create
Northflank will create a new empty Creact React App repository in your Git and start the build 🚀
First, we create a Postgres database on Northflank. Deployed with TLS and private networking so only Retool can access it. To get started we went with the smallest compute plan with 4 GB of storage and one replica.
@jesuisjoraoult
Hey Jonathan. Yes we have support for Postgres PITR but it’s not GA yet, we’d be happy to enable a feature flag for you. Could you reach out to support@ email or in app feedback?
Using Python and
@Streamlit
, you can create interactive web applications for machine learning and data science. Check out our guide and get started with Streamlit on Northflank using the Streamlit Uber example application 🚀
3️⃣ Watch the logs as your service starts
Once the build and deployment succeed you can visit the public service URL hosted on the *.code.run domain or link your own 🔥