Northflank

20 tools available

The self-service developer platform that automates and unifies deployment of any workload, on any cloud, at any scale.

Connect Northflank to Definable to triage issues, review pull requests, monitor builds. Personas call Northflank's 20 tools directly from chat or scheduled flows. Wire it into a triage, review, or release-management persona — every action runs scoped, reviewable, and logged.

Common workflows with Northflank

Triage incoming issues

Webhook fires on every new issue
Persona summarises and labels it
Assigns the right engineer

Auto-review PRs

Pull the diff
Run a code-review persona
Post structured feedback as PR comment

Failing-build alerts

CI sends a failure event
Agent inspects logs and stack trace
Drops a debug summary in Slack

Release notes from commits

Read commits since last tag
Group by type with the model
Post to a changelog channel

Northflank actions 20

Every Northflank action below is a callable tool any Definable persona can invoke.

Create or Update Project

Tool to create a new project or update an existing project in Northflank (upsert operation). Use when you need to ensure a project exists with specific configuration, regardless of whether it's already created.

Create or Update Secret

Tool to create or update a secret group in a Northflank project. Use when you need to store encrypted runtime variables or build arguments that can be inherited by services and jobs.

Create Secret

Tool to create a secret group in a Northflank project. Use when you need to store encrypted environment variables that can be inherited by services and jobs.

Delete Project

Tool to permanently delete a Northflank project and all associated resources. Use when you need to remove a project including all builds, deployments, jobs, addons, secret groups, and configurations.

Get DNS ID

Tool to retrieve the DNS identifier for the authenticated account. Use when you need to get the DNS ID used for generating DNS entries for services and domains.

Get Project

Tool to retrieve detailed information about a specific Northflank project. Use when you need to get project configuration, region, networking settings, or metadata.

Get Secret

Tool to retrieve a secret from a Northflank project including its contents. Use when you need to view the actual secret values and metadata for a specific secret.

Get Secret Details

Tool to view a secret with details about its linked addons from a Northflank project. Use when you need to understand addon dependencies and detailed metadata for a specific secret.

List Addon Types

Tool to retrieve information about available addon types in Northflank. Use when you need to understand what addon types are supported and their features.

List Cloud Provider Node Types

Tool to retrieve supported cloud provider node types available on Northflank. Use when you need to see available node types across various cloud providers including AWS, GCP, Azure, Civo, Oracle Cloud, and CoreWeave.

List Cloud Provider Regions

Tool to retrieve supported cloud provider regions available on Northflank. Use when you need to see available regions across various cloud providers including AWS, GCP, Azure, Civo, Oracle Cloud, and CoreWeave.

List Pipelines

Tool to list all pipelines for a Northflank project. Use when you need to retrieve all pipelines configured in a project.

List Plans

Tool to retrieve available billing/resource plans in Northflank. Use when you need to see available plan options and their specifications.

List Projects

Tool to list all projects in your Northflank team with pagination support. Use when you need to retrieve projects for the authenticated user or team.

List Regions

Tool to retrieve available project regions in Northflank. Use when you need to see which geographic regions are available for deploying projects and resources.

List Secrets

Tool to list all secrets belonging to a Northflank project. Use when you need to retrieve secret groups configured in a project. Supports cursor-based pagination with default 50 results per page.

List Services

Tool to list all services belonging to a Northflank project. Use when you need to retrieve services configured in a project. Supports cursor-based pagination with 50 results per page.

Patch Secret

Tool to partially update a secret group in a Northflank project. Use when you need to modify specific properties of an existing secret without providing all fields.

Update Project

Tool to update a project in Northflank. Use when you need to modify project settings such as description, color, or advanced networking configuration.

Update Secret

Tool to update a secret in a Northflank project. Use when you need to modify existing secret variables or add new variables to an existing secret.

Frequently asked questions

What can I automate with Northflank on Definable?

Anything Northflank exposes through its API. Common developer tools workflows on Definable include triage issues, review pull requests, monitor builds. Personas can call any of the 20 Northflank tools directly, then chain the result into another integration without you writing code.

How does Northflank authentication work?

Northflank uses API_KEY on Definable. You connect once from the integrations page, scoped to the permissions you choose, and from then on any persona that has the integration enabled can act on your behalf. Tokens are encrypted at rest and rotated automatically.

Is the Northflank integration included in my Definable plan?

Yes — every Definable plan, including Starter, includes access to all 20 Northflank tools. You only need a separate Northflank subscription if Northflank itself charges per seat or per API call.

Is using Northflank through Definable secure?

Every call from a persona to Northflank is logged with the user, persona, prompt, and response. Tokens never leave Definable's secrets vault, scopes are configurable per persona, and you can revoke access at any time from the integration page.

How do I get started with Northflank on Definable?

Sign up for Definable, open the integrations page, find Northflank, and connect via OAuth or API key. You can immediately attach Northflank to any persona and start running workflows. The free Starter plan includes 5,000 credits/month.

What Northflank actions does Definable expose?

Definable exposes all 20 Northflank actions as callable tools — including `Create or Update Project`, `Create or Update Secret`, `Create Secret`, plus 17 more. Each tool gets a typed parameter schema so personas know exactly how to call it.

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