How it works

A path from your repository to your running system.

Connect your repository and a Kubernetes cluster. Ankra brings builds, deployments, services and AI-assisted operations together, from your first release to the work that follows.

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The application lifecycle

Four steps. One connected platform.

  1. 01

    Connect what you have

    Bring a Git repository and connect the infrastructure that will run it. Import existing Kubernetes, provision a cluster through Ankra, or start in a playground.

    Choose your infrastructure
  2. 02

    Prepare the application

    Ankra reads the code and prepares the container, chart and build configuration. Review the setup, supply secrets and configure the services your app needs.

    Explore applications
  3. 03

    Build, scan and deploy

    Run the delivery workflow, publish a versioned image and deploy it to the target cluster. Follow the rollout and verify the application at its address.

    Explore delivery
  4. 04

    Keep it running

    Inspect health, logs, metrics and operations. Let your team and its agents investigate issues, propose changes and reuse the platform as new environments arrive.

    Explore operations

Beyond the first deploy

The same workspace for what comes next.

Explore three illustrative workflows: deploy an application, investigate a failure and prepare another environment.

Ankra / northstar
Interactive demo

You built it.
Now it’s running.

A repository becomes an application people can actually use. Ankra takes care of the build, scans and deployment on your infrastructure.

Ship Northstar with Postgres and HTTPS.
  1. Connect the repositorynorthstar / main
  2. Build and scan the imageCode + container security
  3. Connect the databasePostgreSQL · Stored credentials
  4. Bring the application onlineYour cluster · Your domain · HTTPS
The application you built Now on your infrastructure
northstar.example.com Live
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YOUR WORKSPACE

Make something
people love.

Ideas are only the beginning.

The next big thing Live and ready to share
Your next ideaRoom to keep building
All systems operationalBuilt by you.
Application PostgreSQL HTTPS
There’s your app.Built, scanned and responding over HTTPS.
HTTP 200
From a repo to a URL you can share.

Less guesswork.
More getting on with it.

Your agent can see what your app is doing, what changed and why it failed. Go from a vague alert to evidence and a fix you can review.

Northstar is failing. Find out why.
  1. Look at the running applicationRestarts detected after a deployment
  2. Bring the evidence togetherLogs · Events · Deployment history
  3. Find the missing connectionThe database secret isn’t referenced
  4. Prepare the configuration fixA concrete change, ready to review
Ankra investigation Live application context
northstar / productionRestarting
Application health↑ Latest deployment
Container logError: DATABASE_URL is not configured
Found it. The database connection is missing.

The credential exists. This deployment doesn’t reference it.

Application environment− DATABASE_URL: not configured+ DATABASE_URL: secret:postgres-connection
Ready for your review
A clear cause. A concrete fix.Review the proposed change, then choose what happens next.
The context your coding agent was missing.

Keep the platform.
Skip the rebuild.

The stack that works becomes a versioned profile. Reuse it for the next environment, with its own configuration, secrets and cluster.

Give Northstar a staging environment.
  1. Start with your working stackApplication · Postgres · Cache · HTTPS
  2. Save it as a versioned profilenorthstar-platform / v1.4
  3. Choose staging’s inputsIts own cluster, domain and secrets
  4. Prepare the next environmentA stack draft your team can review
One platform, more possibilities Stack profiles
ProductionRunning
ApplicationPostgreSQLCacheHTTPS
Production configuration
northstar-platform v1.4
StagingDraft
ApplicationPostgreSQLCacheHTTPS
Separate secrets & configuration
Same blueprintApplication + services
Your new inputsCluster · Domain · Secrets
Review the staging draft+
profile: northstar-platform@1.4
environment: staging
domain: staging.northstar.example.com
secrets: staging-credentials

Reuses the stack definition. Production data stays in production.

Your next environment starts here.The platform you already built, with a fresh set of inputs.
Build the platform once. Keep moving.
Your code. Your cloud. Your way forward.Make this your workflow

The operating layer for agents

Context. Permissions.
Execution.

An agent needs more than a prompt to run an application. Ankra connects it to the infrastructure, scopes the tools it can use and records the work it performs.

See agents in operation

Your infrastructure

An outbound-connected cluster agent links the running system to Ankra.

Your repository

Stacks, Helm values and manifests keep the intended state in Git.

Your access policy

Organisation roles, cluster grants and tool scopes define who can act.

Your interface

People use the portal, CLI and API. Agents use the platform through scoped tools.

End to end, on real infrastructure

Follow a commit into the running application.

Watch the build, scans, publication, deployment across clusters and the operational work that follows.

Plays from YouTube. Open on YouTube instead

Understand the boundaries

Your infrastructure. A shared control plane.

Applications and services run on the Kubernetes infrastructure you connect. Ankra’s control plane stores the configuration, credentials and operational context needed to manage it. Read the security and trust pages for the architecture, access controls and data handling.

Security architecture Trust & data handling

Your next chapter

You built it.
Let’s get it live.

Give your application a path to production.
Give your team a simpler way to run it.

Get your app live Try a playground

First 30 vCPU of platform usage included.
No credit card required.

From something you built
to something people use.

  • Deploy from your repository
  • Run on infrastructure you choose
  • Operate with your team and agents