User Journey

From sign-up to production

Every step of deploying with Ancla, start to finish.

8 stages — one path

Create your account

Username, email, password — that's it. You're logged in and redirected to onboarding. A personal workspace is auto-created at registration.

register
ancla register
Username: jacob
Email: jacob@example.com
Password: ••••••••
Account created
Personal workspace ready
Starting onboarding...

~2 minutes to deploy-ready

Five steps, all skippable. Creates your project, first service, and picks a deploy target.

1 Name your workspace
2 Create a project
3 Add your first service
4 Pick environments
5 Choose deploy target
Step 3 — Create Project
production staging dev

Home base

Stats across your infrastructure, quick actions, and links into your workspaces and projects.

Welcome back all systems go
2 workspaces
5 projects
12 services

Navigate your resources

Drill from workspace down to a specific service. Everything is addressed as ws/project/env/service.

acme-corpmy-apiproductionweb
W
Workspace
acme-corp
P
Project
my-api
E
Environment
production
S
Service
web

Skip the UI entirely

Four commands from zero to deployed. No browser needed.

1
ancla login
authenticate
2
ancla link ws/proj/env/svc
bind directory
3
ancla deploy
ship it
4
ancla status
verify

Secrets & config variables

Set at any scope — lower scopes override higher ones. Secrets are encrypted at rest and injected as environment variables at deploy time.

Workspace inherited by all
Team team scoped
Project all envs + svcs
Environment all svcs in env
Service highest priority

Build → Release → Rollout

Three ways to trigger. Four stages. Zero downtime.

ancla deploy git push POST /pipeline/deploy
1
Build
2
Release
3
Rollout
4
Health Check
✓ Active
✗ Rolled Back

Post-deploy

Your service is live. Here's what you can do with it.

operations
ancla logs -f
[web.1] GET /api/users 200 12ms
[web.2] GET /api/users 200 8ms
[worker.1] Processing job #4201
ancla scale web=3 worker=2
Scaling web: 1 → 3
Scaling worker: 1 → 2
ancla status
web 3/3 healthy v42
worker 2/2 healthy v42

Ship fast. Sleep well.

From sign-up to your first deploy in under sixty seconds.