# Make Yourself at Home with Neon Local

DevFeed: [Make Yourself at Home with Neon Local](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/make-yourself-at-home-with-neon-local-5523.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://neon.com/blog/make-yourself-at-home-with-neon-local>)

Author: Jeffrey Christoffersen

Published: 2025-04-30T13:02:49Z

Content type: article

Language: en

Sources: [Blog -- Neon Docs](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/blog-neon-docs.md>)

Topics: [Databases](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/databases.md>), [Docker](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/docker.md>), [Docker Compose](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/docker-compose.md>), [ci](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/ci.md>), [JavaScript](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/javascript.md>), [Serverless](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/serverless.md>)

Tags: [ci](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/ci.md>), [compose](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/compose.md>), [database](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/database.md>), [databases](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/databases.md>), [docker](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/docker.md>), [engineering](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/engineering.md>), [javascript](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/javascript.md>), [product](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/product.md>), [serverless](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/serverless.md>)

## AI overview

Neon Local provides a local interface to a Neon cloud database and automatically creates and removes ephemeral database branches as containers start and stop. The article explains how this supports CI, local development, consistent connectivity, and isolated cloud-based environments through Docker.

## Source excerpt

The term ephemeral gets thrown around a lot in the database world, but what does it actually mean? In the context of database branches, it refers to something temporary, short-lived, and not meant to persist. That might sound odd because databases are usually the most permanent p...