Platform engineering without building an internal platform stack

Give developers self-service environments, standardized deployment workflows, and built-in governance without maintaining a complex internal platform architecture.

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Reduce internal platform complexity

Support developer self-service and standardized delivery workflows without operating multiple platform engineering tools and integrations internally. Upsun acts as a PaaS-based platform layer, so your team gets the outcomes of an internal developer platform without building one from scratch.

Tool sprawl

Platform engineering stacks often require stitching together separate deployment, infrastructure, and governance tools that all need to be maintained independently.

Custom integrations

Internal platforms require ongoing engineering effort to build and maintain workflows, integrations, and the glue connecting them.

Operational maintenance

Platform teams spend time operating the platform itself, patching clusters and fixing pipelines, instead of improving developer workflows.

Inconsistent adoption

Without a unified golden path, different teams continue using different deployment workflows and infrastructure patterns.

A managed platform layer for application delivery

Upsun centralizes environments, deployments, infrastructure workflows, and governance into a single platform designed for modern application teams. Developers get a Git-native self-service workflow. Platform teams get the standardization and governance without owning the infrastructure underneath it.

Platform teams set the standard

Define services, environments, and policies once. The configuration becomes the golden path every team inherits automatically.

Developers self-serve

Developers provision environments and deploy applications through Git, without filing tickets or waiting on infrastructure provisioning.

Governance applies automatically

Access controls, compliance policies, and operational standards are enforced at the platform level, consistently, across every team and project.

What you'd otherwise have to build yourself

A typical internal developer platform combines Kubernetes, a service catalog, CI/CD orchestration, and a governance layer, each requiring dedicated engineering time to build and maintain. Upsun provides the same outcomes as a managed platform.

Self-service environments

Developers can create and manage environments without relying on manual infrastructure provisioning or platform team tickets.

Standardized deployment workflows

Teams deploy applications through consistent, Git-based operational workflows. No custom pipelines per team.

Built-in governance

Apply operational standards and infrastructure policies consistently across applications, without building a separate policy engine.

Integrated infrastructure management

Provision services and infrastructure through declarative, version-controlled configuration. No cluster management required.

Preview environments

Generate isolated, full-stack review environments automatically for every branch and pull request.

Multi-framework support

Run PHP, Python, Node.js, Java, Go, and other application stacks side by side on the same operational platform.

Support platform engineering goals without operating platform infrastructure

Upsun helps engineering organizations improve standardization, developer experience, and operational consistency while reducing the amount of internal platform tooling teams maintain manually. Platform engineers shift from running infrastructure to defining standards.

Reducing internal platform maintenance

Avoid maintaining custom deployment tooling, Kubernetes clusters, and infrastructure automation internally.

Standardizing developer workflows

Give application teams consistent deployment and environment workflows, regardless of the framework they use.

Improving developer self-service

Allow developers to provision environments and deploy applications independently, without platform team intervention.

Supporting multi-team governance

Apply operational standards consistently across engineering teams and environments, with centralized visibility.

Upsun has been a transformation accelerator. It allowed us to do DevOps without the extremely expensive and laborious part of setting up these platforms.

Thomas Barriere
DSI, Ineris

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