The Product
Your PaaS is dying.
Your next one shouldn't.
Heroku froze new feature development in February 2026. Salesforce put it in "sustaining mode." Render's cold starts punish your users. Railway's egress bills punish your wallet.
Ancla started because we got tired of the same ritual: write app, then spend three days wiring up Docker, CI pipelines, secrets management, TLS certs, and rollback scripts. We wanted one command. So we built it.
The Idea
Deploy should be
a verb, not a project.
Most platforms make you think about infrastructure before you've even finished your feature. You're choosing instance types, writing Dockerfiles, configuring load balancers. By the time you push to production, you've done more ops than engineering.
Ancla flips that. Point it at your code, run ancla deploy,
and the platform handles detection, building, TLS, zero-downtime rollout, and health checks.
Your app is live. You didn't write a single line of YAML.
And when something breaks at 2am? Roll back in under a second. Every release is immutable, versioned, and auditable. No detective work required.
Capabilities
What you get out of the box
5 stages — one pipeline
One-command deploys
Ancla auto-detects your language, package manager, and framework. Python with uv? Go modules? A bare Dockerfile? It handles all of them. The build runs in an isolated environment, produces an OCI image, and ships it to your cluster with zero-downtime rolling updates.
Instant rollbacks
Every deploy creates an immutable release — your image, your config, your environment variables, frozen together. Rolling back doesn't rebuild anything. It repoints traffic to a known-good snapshot. Sub-second. No drama.
Full audit trail included. See who deployed what, when, and which config changed between versions. Your SOC 2 auditor will thank you.
Secrets that stay secret
Environment variables are encrypted at rest and injected at runtime. They never touch disk
on your containers. No .env files
floating around servers. No plaintext in your CI logs.
Set them from the CLI or the dashboard. Scope them per environment. Diff them between releases.
Logs, shell, scaling
Tail logs across all instances in real time. Drop into a running container when you need to poke around. Scale your web, worker, and cron processes independently with a single command.
TLS from minute one
Certificates are provisioned and renewed automatically through Let's Encrypt. HTTPS everywhere, no configuration, no expiration surprises. Custom domains work the same way — add a CNAME, and Ancla handles the rest.
That's the whole pipeline.
Push your code. Ancla handles the build, the rollout, the certs, and the monitoring. You ship features, not infrastructure.
The Migration
Why teams are switching
Every platform makes trade-offs. These are the ones that push teams to look for something better.
What 1 vCPU + 2 GB RAM costs per month
Under the Hood
Kubernetes, without the PhD
Ancla runs on Kubernetes so you get real orchestration, real scaling, real reliability. But you never have to write a manifest or think about pods.
OCI Images
Every build produces a standard OCI container image. Portable, cacheable, reproducible. No proprietary buildpack magic.
Rolling Updates
New instances spin up, pass health checks, then old instances drain. Zero dropped requests during deploys.
Process Types
Define web, worker, cron, and one-off processes. Each scales independently with dedicated resource limits.
Health Checks
HTTP, TCP, or exec-based probes. Ancla won't route traffic to an instance until it confirms it's ready.
Resource Limits
CPU and memory limits per process. No noisy neighbors, no runaway containers eating your cluster.
Custom Domains
Add a CNAME, tell Ancla, done. TLS provisioned automatically. Wildcard support for SaaS platforms.
Try it. It's fast.
From sign-up to your first deploy in under sixty seconds.