Qovery

Qovery is a comprehensive DevOps Automation Platform, also known as an Internal Developer Platform (IDP), designed to empower developers by providing them with self-service infrastructure. Trusted by over 200 organizations, Qovery automates the complex and time-consuming tasks of provisioning and maintaining secure, compliant cloud infrastructure. This allows engineering teams to focus on building products rather than managing infrastructure, significantly accelerating development velocity and reducing overall engineering time.

The platform is built on the philosophy of eliminating vendor lock-in, featuring an open-source deployment engine and ensuring reversibility. It seamlessly integrates into existing workflows, supporting major cloud providers like AWS, Azure, and GCP, as well as tools like GitHub, GitLab, and BitBucket. Qovery's core mission is to make infrastructure management as simple as possible, enabling teams to deploy applications 5x faster and reduce cloud costs by up to 57%.

How to use Qovery

Getting started with Qovery is designed to be straightforward for developers and platform engineers. The process typically follows these steps:

1. Connect Your Cloud & Git: Integrate your AWS, GCP, or Azure account and connect your Git repositories from GitHub, GitLab, or BitBucket.
2. Define Your Services: Configure your applications, databases, and other services through the intuitive web UI, a powerful CLI, an API, or the Qovery Terraform Provider. You can deploy containerized apps, Helm charts, or even Terraform modules.
3. Automated Deployment: Qovery automatically handles the deployment process. When a developer creates a pull request, Qovery can spin up a complete, isolated 'Preview Environment' that mirrors production, including databases. This allows for thorough testing before merging.
4. Manage Environments: Developers can self-serve and manage development, staging, and production environments without needing to file tickets or wait for a DevOps team.
5. Local Testing: For a quick trial, you can run Qovery on your local machine with a single command (`qovery demo up`), allowing you to explore its features for free without any time limits.
6. Bring Your Own Kubernetes (BYOK): For advanced users, Qovery can be installed on your existing Kubernetes cluster using a simple Helm chart generated by the `qovery cluster install` command.

Core Features of Qovery

• Automated Environment Provisioning: Automatically create and manage ready-to-run environments for development, QA, testing, and production, including ephemeral preview environments for every pull request.
• Developer Self-Service & Integrations: Empower developers with control over their infrastructure via a Web UI, CLI, API, or Terraform Provider. Qovery seamlessly integrates with over 125 tools, including CI/CD pipelines, monitoring, and security solutions.
• Governance & Custom Policies: Enforce best practices, compliance, and security standards by setting custom policies and governance controls over your infrastructure.
• Security & Control: Features robust security measures including fine-grained Role-Based Access Control (RBAC), SAML SSO, two-factor authentication, and secure communication between all components. Qovery is SOC2 and HIPAA compliant.
• Cloud Cost Optimization: Intelligently reduces cloud costs by automatically shutting down unused environments, sharing resources like load balancers, and integrating with tools like Karpenter for highly efficient Kubernetes node autoscaling.
• Multi-Cloud & Kubernetes Support: Deploy on major cloud providers (AWS, GCP, Azure, Scaleway) and manage your applications on Kubernetes, either with a Qovery-managed cluster or by bringing your own.
• Qovery Cloudshell: Provides remote shell access to your applications and databases directly from your web browser with a single click.

Use Cases for Qovery

Qovery is ideal for growing tech teams and organizations looking to streamline their development processes.

• Accelerating Developer Velocity: Companies like GetSafe use Qovery to automate infrastructure provisioning, resulting in higher engineering efficiency.
• Improving Developer Experience (DevEx): DevDocs leverages Qovery for its preview environments, which spin up a full replica of the database for each pull request, making testing more reliable and efficient.
• Infrastructure Scaling: Startups and mid-size companies like Papershift use Qovery to easily autoscale their infrastructure as they grow, without needing a large, dedicated DevOps team.
• Simplified Cloud Migration: Teams can easily migrate containerized applications to their own Kubernetes clusters on AWS, as noted by users from Ninetailed and Eskuad.

Advantages of Qovery

Qovery offers significant advantages over traditional DevOps workflows or other platforms.

• Increased Speed: Achieve up to 5x faster deployments.
• Enhanced Efficiency: Reduce overall engineering time by an average of 30%.
• Significant Cost Savings: Lower cloud costs by up to 57% through smart optimization.
• No Vendor Lock-In: With an open-source engine and the ability to export all configuration files (Terraform, Helm), you can easily move away from Qovery and manage the infrastructure yourself.
• Flexibility and Extensibility: Integrates with your existing toolchain and allows SRE teams to build on top of the platform.

Pricing and Plans

Qovery offers a flexible, usage-based pricing model with a generous free tier.

• Free Plan: $0/month. Perfect for individuals and small projects. Includes deployment on your local machine, up to 5 users, 20 services, and 1,000 free deployment minutes per month.
• Team Plan: Starts at $29 per user/month. Ideal for growing teams. Includes all Free features, plus support for up to 100 users, 5 managed clusters, 200 services, and Slack support.
• Enterprise Plan: Custom pricing. Tailored for large organizations with specific needs. Includes all Team features plus Bring Your Own Kubernetes (BYOK), custom limits, Role-Based Access Control (RBAC), extended security and compliance, and dedicated support with an SLA.
• Add-ons: Managed Clusters are available at $199/month per cluster. RBAC is available for $499/month. Additional deployment minutes are billed at $0.16 per minute after the free 1000 minutes.