[emilsoman]

Step 3 in this flow is sometimes painful for big teams because developers have to wait in line if other developers are already using staging and may have to roll back databases after testing. Dockup gives the reviewer a chance to quickly test the feature without having to manually do deployments or start the app before merging the PR. Thanks for asking!

[MuffinFlavored]

I still don't perfectly grasp what this tool does.

How can you deploy multiple staging environments?

I guess I kind of get it now that I think through it.

Say you need 10 services for staging to work. They all talk to the staging database...

Does this DockUp thing also allow you to configure to deploy a database so developers aren't fighting over data/migrations in staging?

It sounds like a containerized development environment, but it's really only as good as the configuration job that is done for it.

How do I test new load balancer rules? Gotta have all of the load balancer images + configuration files in.

[lumengxi]

Yea, I agree. Step 3 is not a trivial setup for early-stage startups. Glad to see devtools companies trying to tackle this.

At the company I worked at, we built something similar using Heroku free dynos :) So that you can tag a PR and it automatically created a staging app using free Heroku dyno, it even came with a free database. The setup works but also quite spotty.