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I automated my whole microservice deployment of my startup. Here is how.

A few months back, shipping features at my startup felt like fighting a boss battle every time we deployed.

We weren’t some huge company with SREs and DevOps engineers on call. We were just a small team building a solid product.

And yet, our microservice setup was draining our energy.

It wasn’t the code.

It wasn’t the infrastructure.

It was everything in between.

We had 6 services:

  • Auth
  • Payments
  • Notifications
  • Admin
  • Frontend
  • A worker queue

Each had different environments, configurations, and quirks.

Here’s what a deploy used to feel like:

Me: “Did you update the payment env vars?”

Teammate: “I think so?”

build fails silently

Me: “Let me SSH in and check the logs.”

spends 15 mins figuring out which container crashed

Multiply this by every feature release. And that’s how we wasted hours not building, but babysitting deployments.

What we wanted.

We wanted have a full CI/CD pipeline automated. GitHub Actions? Docker Hub? ArgoCD? Terraform?

Honestly, yeah. I spent nights exploring them all. But every tool needed another tool to glue it together.

We needed something that:

  • Worked across all services (Python, Node, React)
  • Required zero infra babysitting
  • Had proper logs and rollbacks
  • Could scale when traffic hit

- Didn’t cost much

I came across Kuberns after a Reddit comment on a random “Heroku alternative” thread.

Looked promising:

“Deploy in 10 mins. GitHub → Live app. No YAML. Save 40% on AWS.”

Honestly, I was skeptical.

But I had nothing to lose.

How I set it up in under an hour?

I was expecting some complex setup. But here’s what happened:

Step 1: Sign up & create a project

Went to kuberns.com, signed up, clicked “Deploy for Free.”

Deployment Image

Step 2: Connected GitHub

It pulled in all my repos. I selected one microservice to test it out.

Deployment Image

Step 3: Selected branch, region, added .env

Even uploading the env file was smooth. No clicking one key at a time.

Deployment Image

Step 4: Clicked "Deploy"

And boom. It started building. The logs were clean, readable, and gave me confidence.

It even generated a live URL with SSL. My app was up in ~2 minutes.

Deployment Image

What blew my mind

I repeated the same for 5 other services and everything worked.

Each service had:

  • Its own CI/CD pipeline (no config)
  • Auto-scaling and rollback support
  • Logs + metrics in one place
  • Zero downtime deploys
  • Free built-in monitoring

And I didn’t write a single line of infra code.

After switching everything to Kuberns:

  • Deployment time dropped from ~45 minutes to under 2 minutes
  • Developer time went into product, not infrastructure
  • Mistakes dropped (no more “forgot to restart the service”)
  • Cloud bills dropped by ~40%, because Kuberns optimizes infra behind the scenes

And yes, we tested it under load

We had a feature launch last month that pulled in 1000+ users within the first hour.

No crashes. No slowdowns.

We didn’t even touch our infrastructure.

Kuberns handled scaling, logging, monitoring, all behind the curtain.

If you’re curious

You can try it here: https://kuberns.com

If you're deploying microservices and feel like you're doing too much manual work, this might save you a few headaches.

Want to see our real configurations? Drop a comment, happy to share.

Let me know what your current deployment setup you are using.

I can help you learn a thing or two from what mistakes we did.

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