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# Local development to production - Ankra Use Cases

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Move from a development cluster to staging and production with reusable configuration and explicit environment inputs.

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Local development to production

# Keep the same application. Change the environment.

Move from a development cluster to staging and production with reusable configuration and explicit environment inputs.

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

For developers and platform teams

The work to take off your team

## Every environment should not need its own platform assembled from scratch.

Use stacks and profiles to carry the structure that works, then bind the domains, resource settings, credentials and application versions that belong to each environment.

With Ankra

### Environments your team can reproduce and understand.

Develop on a real cluster  Capture the platform  Prepare the next environment  Review and promote

A practical path

## How this works with Ankra.

1. 01

  ### Develop on a real cluster

  Connect local Kubernetes or use an Ankra playground to exercise the application and its services.
2. 02

  ### Capture the platform

  Keep the stack in Git and turn its reusable parts into a versioned profile.
3. 03

  ### Prepare the next environment

  Choose a target cluster and supply environment-specific variables and secret inputs.
4. 04

  ### Review and promote

  Inspect the target draft, deploy the application version and verify the running result.

 [Follow the product guide](https://docs.ankra.ai/guides/minikube)

The platform behind the workflow

## The pieces, already connected.

[### Reusable stack profiles Turn a working stack into a versioned template. Apply it to another cluster with the right inputs for that environment.](https://ankra.ai/features#profiles)

[### Continuous delivery Deploy on a successful build, promote between environments, and follow the rollout on the target cluster.](https://ankra.ai/features#delivery)

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

Watch a real workflow

## See it running.

A recorded walkthrough of the platform on real infrastructure. The film shows a specific environment, rather than a promise about every deployment.

Plays from YouTube.  [Open on YouTube instead](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zED1slvEvU0)

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 ### Multi-cloud & private infrastructure Use one operational platform across public clouds, managed Kubernetes and private servers.](https://ankra.ai/use-cases/multi-cloud)

[Build & ship ### Applications and their services Run PostgreSQL, caches, monitoring and other platform services alongside the applications that use them.](https://ankra.ai/use-cases/databases-and-services)

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