From PR to Production in Under 10 Minutes

Every backend developer knows the feeling: you open a PR, wait for CI, wait for staging, manually verify, merge, wait for production deploy, then pray nothing breaks. What if that entire loop took under 10 minutes — automatically?

The Problem With Backend Deploys

Frontend developers have had instant previews for years. Vercel, Netlify — push code, get a URL. But backend services? You're still SSHing into servers, watching Docker builds, and refreshing Grafana dashboards. We built FluxNow because we were tired of being second-class citizens in the deployment world.

How Our Pipeline Works

1. Open a PR → FluxNow auto-detects your runtime, spins up an isolated preview environment
2. Preview is live → Your backend API is running at pr-42.yourapp.openfab.dev before the review even starts
3. Merge to main → Staging deploy triggers automatically. Zero-downtime rolling update.
4. Monitor → Built-in health checks, Grafana dashboards, and alerts — no setup required.

Real Numbers From Our Own Dogfooding

We run FluxNow on FluxNow. Here's what our pipeline looks like:

• PR to preview: ~90 seconds (Docker build + k8s rollout)
• Merge to staging: ~2 minutes (image build + ArgoCD sync)
• CI fix loop: Automated — the agent catches lint/build failures and pushes fixes
• Total PR-to-production: Under 10 minutes, including code review

What This Means For You

On the Free tier ($0), you get one always-on backend service with a preview environment. That's enough to ship a real API, a Discord bot, a webhook processor, or a background worker. No credit card. No infrastructure knowledge required.

Try It

Install our GitHub App, and we'll open an onboarding PR in your repo. The first preview environment is created on that PR — try it before you merge. When you're ready for staging, just merge.