# How Professional Soft-Tech moved from Heroku to Kuberns > See how Professional Soft-Tech migrated from Heroku to Kuberns and created a simpler deployment workflow for applications across different technology stacks. - **Author**: charan-achari - **Published**: 2026-07-28 - **Modified**: 2026-07-28 - **Category**: Deployment Guides - **URL**: https://kuberns.com/blogs/professional-soft-tech/ --- Professional Soft-Tech develops web and mobile applications across a broad range of frameworks, databases, and cloud services. That flexibility helps the agency choose an appropriate stack for each client, but it also creates a deployment challenge: every project can arrive with different runtime, database, and configuration requirements. The team had used Heroku as part of its application deployment workflow. As its mix of client applications expanded, Professional Soft-Tech wanted a more consistent way to move projects from a source repository into production without rebuilding the deployment process for each stack. Professional Soft-Tech moved its deployment workflow from Heroku to [Kuberns](https://kuberns.com/). By connecting application repositories to Kuberns and configuring each workload in one platform, the team created a simpler, repeatable path for deploying applications across its client projects. ## Results achieved | Customer | Professional Soft-Tech | | --- | --- | | Industry | Web and mobile application development | | Application | Client applications across Node.js, Laravel, PHP, and database-backed stacks | | Previous platform | Heroku | | Current platform | Kuberns | | Implementation | Connected source repositories, configured application environments, validated deployments, and moved production traffic | | Deployment outcome | One repeatable repository-to-production workflow across different application stacks | | Time impact | Less repeated deployment configuration when preparing client applications for production | | Cost impact | Less operational work associated with maintaining separate deployment processes across projects | | Migration approach | Parallel validation on Kuberns before retiring the Heroku deployment | The central outcome was operational consistency. Instead of treating deployment as a separate infrastructure exercise for every client application, Professional Soft-Tech could use a common workflow while continuing to support different frameworks and databases. ## About Professional Soft-Tech ![Professional Soft-Tech web and mobile application development company](https://kuberns-blogs-media.s3.ap-south-1.amazonaws.com/professional-softech.png) [Professional Soft-Tech](https://www.professionalsofttech.com/) is a web and mobile application development company founded in 2010. The company describes its work as spanning web development, mobile applications, ecommerce, backend development, APIs, and user-interface design. Its public technology portfolio includes React, Vue.js, Node.js, Laravel and other PHP frameworks. It also lists MySQL, MariaDB, MongoDB, Firebase, and PostgreSQL among its database technologies. Its deployment and development toolkit includes Heroku, AWS, Google Cloud, DigitalOcean, Docker, GitHub, and Bitbucket. The company works across industries including education, healthcare, ecommerce, real estate, logistics, travel, and startups. These projects can have substantially different application and infrastructure requirements, making a repeatable deployment process particularly valuable to the agency. Learn more about the company and its team on the [Professional Soft-Tech LinkedIn page](https://in.linkedin.com/company/professional-softtech). ## Customer statement > "Every client application has different technical requirements. With Kuberns, we can follow one deployment workflow instead of rebuilding the setup for every project." > > [Mehul Makwana](https://in.linkedin.com/in/mehul-r-makwana), Team Lead and Full-Stack Developer, Professional Soft-Tech ## What application does Professional Soft-Tech deploy? Professional Soft-Tech builds and maintains client-facing web and mobile products rather than a single standardized SaaS product. Its [public portfolio](https://www.professionalsofttech.com/portfolio) shows projects built with Laravel, CodeIgniter, Yii, WordPress, React Native, Java, MySQL, Redis, and payment and communications integrations. The workload covered by this migration is a set of database-backed web applications that Professional Soft-Tech develops and operates for client projects. These applications combine application code, runtime configuration, databases, third-party APIs, and production domains. Because client requirements differ, the objective was not to force every project into one framework. It was to give different application stacks a consistent deployment path. ### Technology stack Professional Soft-Tech works across the following technologies, which reflect the range of application stacks supported by the team's deployment workflow. | Layer | Technologies relevant to the team's work | | --- | --- | | Frontend | React, Vue.js, TypeScript, HTML, CSS | | Backend | Node.js, Laravel, CodeIgniter, Yii, CakePHP | | Databases | PostgreSQL, MySQL, MariaDB, MongoDB, Firebase | | Packaging and cloud | Docker, Heroku, AWS, Google Cloud, DigitalOcean | | Source control | Git, GitHub, Bitbucket | | Previous deployment platform | Heroku | | Current deployment platform | Kuberns | This list is based on Professional Soft-Tech's [official technology overview](https://www.professionalsofttech.com/), not an assertion that every listed technology was part of the migrated workload. ## How did Professional Soft-Tech deploy before Kuberns? Before Kuberns, Professional Soft-Tech used Heroku for relevant application deployments. Heroku gave the team a managed platform for turning application code into a running service, but each project still had its own runtime, environment variables, database connections, and supporting services to manage. That model was workable for an individual application. It became harder to standardize across an agency portfolio because the deployment knowledge for each project remained tied to its particular stack and platform configuration. Professional Soft-Tech needed a workflow that could accommodate those differences without requiring developers to become infrastructure specialists or create a separate cloud setup for every client. ## What deployment challenges was Professional Soft-Tech facing? ### Different stacks created repeated deployment work A Laravel application and a Node.js service do not necessarily use the same build commands, runtime settings, processes, or database configuration. Repeating those decisions for each client project increased the amount of deployment work surrounding the application itself. ### Project-specific configuration was difficult to standardize Client applications required their own environment variables, domains, databases, and external integrations. The team needed to preserve these differences while making the path from repository to production more consistent. ### The agency wanted managed deployment without raw-cloud operations Professional Soft-Tech already works with AWS, Google Cloud, DigitalOcean, Docker, and Heroku. Running directly on cloud infrastructure offers flexibility, but it also shifts more responsibility for provisioning, deployment automation, networking, monitoring, and ongoing operations to the development team. The desired outcome was a managed application platform that reduced this operational work without limiting the range of application stacks the agency could deliver. ## Why did Professional Soft-Tech choose Kuberns? Professional Soft-Tech needed a platform that matched the way an agency works: multiple repositories, varied frameworks, different environment configurations, and projects that must be handed over or maintained reliably. ![Kuberns Agentic AI platform for deployment](https://kuberns-blogs-media.s3.ap-south-1.amazonaws.com/kuberns-home-page-new.png) Kuberns provided a repository-connected deployment workflow that could be reused across these projects. Rather than beginning with infrastructure configuration, the team could begin with the application repository and configure the runtime requirements around it. The relevant capabilities included: - Connecting a source repository to the deployment. - Keeping application configuration and environment variables separate from source code. - Supporting applications built with different frameworks. - Creating a repeatable deployment process for client projects. - Allowing the development team to manage deployments without operating the underlying cloud infrastructure directly. This was particularly relevant to Professional Soft-Tech because standardization could not come at the cost of stack flexibility. ## How did Professional Soft-Tech migrate from Heroku to Kuberns? The migration followed a staged process designed to keep the existing Heroku deployment available until the application had been validated on Kuberns. ### 1. Identify the application components The team reviewed the application repository, runtime, build and start commands, environment variables, database connection, domain, and external services. This established what had to be reproduced outside Heroku. ### 2. Connect the source repository Professional Soft-Tech connected the relevant repository to Kuberns and selected the production branch. This made the source repository the starting point for the new deployment workflow. ### 3. Configure the application The team added the required environment variables and confirmed the commands and services needed to build and run the application. Secrets remained outside the repository. ### 4. Create and validate a parallel deployment Kuberns built and deployed the application while the Heroku version remained available. Professional Soft-Tech checked application routes, database connectivity, third-party integrations, and production behavior before directing users to the new deployment. ### 5. Move production traffic After validation, the team connected the production domain to the Kuberns deployment and monitored the application. The previous Heroku deployment could then be retired after the Kuberns version was confirmed stable. This parallel approach reduced migration risk by separating application validation from the production cutover. For a technical planning checklist, see the Kuberns guide to [migrating from Heroku](https://kuberns.com/blogs/migrate-from-heroku/). ## What results did Professional Soft-Tech achieve? The migration gave Professional Soft-Tech a more consistent deployment workflow for applications that do not all share the same technology stack. The qualitative results were: - A common path from source repository to a running application. - Less need to design a new deployment process for each client project. - A clearer separation between application development and cloud operations. - A workflow the team could apply across different frameworks and databases. - A staged migration process that allowed validation before the Heroku deployment was retired. These results describe the operational changes observed during the migration. They do not represent percentage, cost-saving, performance, or uptime claims. ### How were the results measured? The results were assessed using the following evidence: | Result | Preferred evidence | | --- | --- | | Deployment time | Heroku and Kuberns deployment logs | | Setup effort | Engineering records or a documented team estimate | | Platform cost | Comparable Heroku and Kuberns invoices | | Reliability | Failed-deployment and incident records | | Migration scope | Repository and application inventory | | Observation period | Explicit start and end dates | The assessment considered the relevant applications, deployments, and observation period so that measured evidence remained separate from the team's qualitative experience. ## Is Kuberns a good fit for similar teams? Kuberns can be a good fit for web and mobile development agencies that deploy backend or full-stack applications for multiple clients and want a managed alternative to Heroku or direct cloud administration. The Professional Soft-Tech use case is most relevant to teams that: - Work across Node.js, Laravel, PHP, or other backend frameworks. - Maintain multiple repositories or client environments. - Need to manage environment variables, databases, and custom domains. - Want a repeatable deployment process without building a separate CI/CD and infrastructure stack for every project. - Prefer to keep developers focused on application delivery rather than routine cloud operations. Teams with highly specialized networking, regulatory, hardware, or infrastructure-control requirements should validate those requirements directly before choosing any managed platform. ## About Kuberns [Kuberns](https://kuberns.com/) is an Agentic AI platform for deployment that helps development teams deploy and manage applications without building and maintaining cloud infrastructure themselves. Teams connect a source repository, configure the application, and use Kuberns to manage the deployment workflow on AWS infrastructure. Kuberns is designed for developers, startups, software companies, and agencies that want a managed path from application code to production while retaining support for different backend and full-stack technologies. ## Explore the implementation These resources explain the migration and deployment workflow in more detail: - [Migrate from Heroku to Kuberns](https://kuberns.com/blogs/migrate-from-heroku/) - [Get started with Kuberns](https://docs.kuberns.com/docs/getStarted) - [Configure environment variables](https://docs.kuberns.com/docs/guides/basics/env-variables) - [Configure a custom domain](https://docs.kuberns.com/docs/guides/basics/custom-domain) - [Kuberns pricing](https://kuberns.com/pricing) ## Conclusion: A Repeatable Deployment Workflow for Professional Soft-Tech Professional Soft-Tech's move from Heroku to Kuberns shows how a development agency can standardize deployment across varied client applications without building a separate infrastructure workflow for every project. By connecting application repositories to Kuberns, the team can use a consistent path from code to production while retaining the flexibility required by different backend and full-stack technologies. If your team wants to simplify application deployment and spend less time managing cloud infrastructure, [start deploying with Kuberns](https://dashboard.kuberns.com). Deploy applications with Kuberns ## Frequently asked questions ### Why did Professional Soft-Tech move from Heroku to Kuberns? Professional Soft-Tech wanted a simpler and more consistent deployment workflow for client applications built with different technology stacks. Kuberns allowed the team to begin with the application repository and manage deployments without creating a separate infrastructure process for every project. ### How did Professional Soft-Tech migrate from Heroku? The team identified the application's runtime and dependencies, connected its repository to Kuberns, configured environment variables, validated a parallel deployment, and moved production traffic after testing. The Heroku deployment remained available during validation. ### How did the team test the application before moving production traffic? Professional Soft-Tech validated application routes, database connectivity, third-party integrations, and production behavior on Kuberns before retiring the Heroku deployment. ### Can Kuberns support agencies managing different application stacks? Kuberns is designed to deploy applications from source repositories across different backend and full-stack technologies. 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