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# Applications and their services - Ankra Use Cases

Canonical: https://ankra.ai/use-cases/databases-and-services

Run PostgreSQL, caches, monitoring and other platform services alongside the applications that use them.

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Applications and their services

# Your app needs more than a container.

Run PostgreSQL, caches, monitoring and other platform services alongside the applications that use them.

[Start with Ankra](https://platform.ankra.app/auth/signup)  [Read the guide](https://docs.ankra.ai/concepts/addons)

For teams building applications with service dependencies

The work to take off your team

## A database connection is easy to write. The service behind it still needs a platform.

Compose services from Helm charts and manifests, keep their configuration in Git and reuse a stack that works. Connect applications through organisation credentials and environment secrets.

With Ankra

### The application and its dependencies, understood together.

Choose the services  Compose the stack  Connect the application  Follow the running system

A practical path

## How this works with Ankra.

1. 01

  ### Choose the services

  Select the charts, manifests and existing services your application requires.
2. 02

  ### Compose the stack

  Define values, resources, variables and the order in which dependencies should deploy.
3. 03

  ### Connect the application

  Bind endpoints and supply scoped credentials through the appropriate secret store.
4. 04

  ### Follow the running system

  Inspect workload health, storage, logs and operations; plan data protection for stateful services.

 [Follow the product guide](https://docs.ankra.ai/concepts/addons)

The platform behind the workflow

## The pieces, already connected.

[### Databases & platform services Deploy open source PostgreSQL, caches, monitoring, storage and private AI gateways, with agents helping investigate and operate the stack.](https://ankra.ai/features#services)

[### Stacks & visual builder Compose applications, Helm add-ons and manifests into a platform, with variables and dependency order.](https://ankra.ai/features#stacks)

[### Secrets & credentials Keep application secrets separate from ordinary configuration, and encrypt sensitive values that belong in Git.](https://ankra.ai/features#secrets)

What comes next?

## Keep building from here.

[Build & ship ### Ship your application Connect a repository and get a path from code to a running application on infrastructure you control.](https://ankra.ai/use-cases/ship-your-app)

[Grow & move ### Run open source alternatives Replace suitable managed services from AWS, Azure or Google Cloud with open source services deployed through Ankra and operated with agent help.](https://ankra.ai/use-cases/replace-managed-services)

[Grow & move ### Bring the systems you already run Connect existing clusters and services, give agents useful context and adopt Ankra one practical step at a time.](https://ankra.ai/use-cases/bring-existing-infrastructure)

Your next chapter

## You built it.
*Let’s get it live.*

Give your application a path to production.
 Give your team a simpler way to run it.

[Get your app live](https://platform.ankra.app/auth/signup)  [Try a playground](https://ankra.ai/playground)

First 30 vCPU of platform usage included.
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From something you built
to something people use.

- Deploy from your repository
- Run on infrastructure you choose
- Operate with your team and agents