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So I’d like to take the opportunity to tell you the story of our open source project “Preevy” - an open source tool that’s designed to make preview environments more accessible and affordable for dev teams everywhere.
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SaaSHub
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To get a similar experience of preevy up, first we’ll need to split the build and deploy using process or alternatively employ tools that orchestrate build-tag-push-update-sync flow like Skaffold/Tilt.
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Using that flow, it was quite common to encounter roadblocks: staging was often blocked, it wasn’t synced with the current state of the main branch, and we had to wait a long time before deploying to staging or production. Furthermore, we had to open and close multiple PRs to deploy a single feature due to fixes or bugs found between each of these steps, even when we leveraged our powerful feature flag solution.
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To get a similar experience of preevy up, first we’ll need to split the build and deploy using process or alternatively employ tools that orchestrate build-tag-push-update-sync flow like Skaffold/Tilt.
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For frontend applications - it can be quite simple to implement preview environments with a simple static storage and a reverse proxy tool like Nginx or Traefik.
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For frontend applications - it can be quite simple to implement preview environments with a simple static storage and a reverse proxy tool like Nginx or Traefik.
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For serverless applications - IaC tools such as Pulumi/Terraform can be used to provision a stack for every PR.
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For cloud-native applications - a Helm based configuration with a CI/CD pipeline that deploy to a dedicated namespace in Kubernetes cluster and adjusts ingress rules for access can work well.
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terraform
Terraform enables you to safely and predictably create, change, and improve infrastructure. It is a source-available tool that codifies APIs into declarative configuration files that can be shared amongst team members, treated as code, edited, reviewed, and versioned.
For serverless applications - IaC tools such as Pulumi/Terraform can be used to provision a stack for every PR.
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Development Containers: Use a container as a full-featured development environment. (by devcontainers)
For these reasons, I believe most developer environments should prioritize developer experience over fidelity. Tools like Containerized development environments and cloud emulators can strike the right balance and there’s no surprise that we see increased activity around devcontainers, and similar solutions.
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LocalStack
💻 A fully functional local AWS cloud stack. Develop and test your cloud & Serverless apps offline
For these reasons, I believe most developer environments should prioritize developer experience over fidelity. Tools like Containerized development environments and cloud emulators can strike the right balance and there’s no surprise that we see increased activity around devcontainers, and similar solutions.
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devpod
Codespaces but open-source, client-only and unopinionated: Works with any IDE and lets you use any cloud, kubernetes or just localhost docker.
For these reasons, I believe most developer environments should prioritize developer experience over fidelity. Tools like Containerized development environments and cloud emulators can strike the right balance and there’s no surprise that we see increased activity around devcontainers, and similar solutions.
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For these reasons, I believe most developer environments should prioritize developer experience over fidelity. Tools like Containerized development environments and cloud emulators can strike the right balance and there’s no surprise that we see increased activity around devcontainers, and similar solutions.
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Simplicity: Docker Compose is easy to use, requiring no extensive DevOps knowledge.
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Clone this samples repository and cd into the sample you want to try. (or alternatively, use any other docker-compose based application)
