Two good tools, built for similar jobs
Both give developers self-service on Kubernetes in your own cloud. The real question is how much control the platform team keeps over what developers can request and ship.
Qovery brings a Heroku-style experience to your own cloud account. A developer connects a Git repository and Qovery builds and deploys it to a cluster it manages on AWS, GCP, Azure or Scaleway, or to one you bring. Preview environments per pull request and environment cloning are core features.
That developer experience is genuinely good, and for many teams it is enough. The trade-off is control: guardrails are mostly RBAC and deployment rules, and the platform favors convenience over the policy depth a regulated or multi-team platform may need.
- Developer experience first
- Governance centers on RBAC and rules
- Git-triggered deploys, no drift sync
- Convenience over stack customization
Atmosly is an internal developer platform for Kubernetes. It provisions clusters and cloud resources through guardrails, ships code with visual CI/CD and GitOps, and gives developers governed environments without a ticket.
Developers get the same self-service, and the platform team keeps the policy: approval thresholds on provisioning requests, allow-lists, approval gates and one audit trail. It is fully managed, and the SquareOps services team can implement and run it for you.
- Guardrails on every provisioning request
- GitOps-native delivery with drift detection
- Preview environments and cloning
- One audit trail and an audited web terminal
Same self-service. More control for the platform team.
Atmosly keeps the low-friction developer experience and adds the guardrails, GitOps and promotion gates a platform team needs once many teams ship to production.
Guardrails on every request, one audit trail
Self-service only scales if someone can say no automatically. Every Atmosly request runs through the policy you design: cost caps on the request, region and instance allow-lists, required settings and approvals, with one-click revert.
- Auto-approve under threshold, review above it
- Fine-grained RBAC with SAML SSO
- Audited web terminal for scoped kubectl
GitOps-native delivery with progressive rollouts
Atmosly pipelines run source, build, test, deploy, verify and promote, synced through GitOps with drift detection. Roll out with blue-green or canary, gate production on approvals and roll back in one click.
- Visual editor or YAML, same engine
- Post-deploy verification and one-click rollback
- Coexists with ArgoCD, Jenkins and GitHub Actions
Self-service that inherits the platform team's defaults
Every PR gets its own environment with policies inherited from prod, full stacks clone in one step, and developers install vetted Helm charts with your defaults already applied, instead of bringing their own.
- Preview environment per PR, auto-expires on merge
- Clone services, config and datastores in one step
- 200+ signed, vetted Helm charts, version-pinned
Qovery vs Atmosly, capability by capability
We kept Qovery's genuine wins in the table. They're marked so you can see them at a glance.
Qovery's strengths are real: a polished PaaS experience, managed clusters on four clouds and mature preview environments. Atmosly's case is deeper governance, GitOps delivery and progressive rollouts for platform teams.
Which one is right for your team?
It depends on scope, and on who you want running the platform.
- Developer self-service deploy is the main need
- You want a Heroku-like experience on your cloud
- Scaleway support or its managed clusters matter
- Light governance is enough for your team size
- A small team wants the fastest path to production
- The platform team needs approval thresholds and allow-lists
- You want GitOps sync with drift detection
- You need one audit trail across provision and deploy
- You want blue-green and canary rollouts with gates
- You'd like a partner (SquareOps) to implement and run it
If the fastest possible developer self-service on your own cloud is the priority, Qovery is a strong, focused choice. If you want that self-service with guardrails, GitOps and an audit trail the platform team controls, that's Atmosly.
Connect a cluster freeFrom Qovery to Atmosly in an afternoon
No big-bang migration. Atmosly connects to the clusters Qovery already runs on, read-only, so you can see value first and move services over one at a time.
Rather not do it yourself? The SquareOps services team can run the migration and day-2 operations for you.
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consult@squareops.comBoth give developers self-service deploys and preview environments on Kubernetes in your own cloud. Qovery optimizes for a PaaS-style developer experience, while Atmosly adds more control for the platform team: guardrails on every request, GitOps with drift detection, blue-green or canary rollouts and one audit trail.
No. Atmosly creates a preview environment per pull request in about two minutes, with policies inherited from prod, and expires it on merge. You can also clone a full stack for a tenant, region or load test.
Yes, during a move. Atmosly can import the same clusters Qovery deploys to, read-only, so you can onboard services one at a time. Most teams settle on one deployment path per service so ownership stays clear.
Not very, and it is incremental. Import the clusters you already run, turn one running service into a blueprint and pipeline, then move the rest one workload at a time. The SquareOps services team can run the migration for you.
Any conformant Kubernetes cluster: EKS, GKE, AKS or self-managed, public or private, including on-prem and bare-metal. Atmosly creates new EKS, GKE and AKS clusters or imports the ones you already run.
No. It runs on your own clusters in your own cloud, on standard Kubernetes, Helm and Git, so what you build stays portable.
It is fully managed and agent-based, and read-only by default, so there is no control plane for you to host or upgrade. Enterprise customers can self-host the control plane in their own VPC.
Atmosly has published plans: Starter at $399 a month, Growth at $1,299 a month and custom Enterprise, with a 30-day trial and no credit card. Check Qovery's current plans directly, since the right choice depends on team size and how much governance you need.