Free automatic test environments for your pull requests
I recently created a new landing page for one of my products, Pull Dog, which can be seen here:
It allows you to auto-provision test environments every time you open a pull request. Best of all, it starts with a free plan!
In addition, it is already being used by Portainer, a GitHub project with 14k stars.
Feedback is very welcome.
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Sounds interesting, one question I have though - is why can't you use plain GitHub Actions for that?
Github Actions is a build server. It runs once per commit. You still need somewhere to host your test environment, and hooks to tear it down again when you don't need it.
That's easy if you've already got a development team of several people and have a functional Kubernetes cluster, but those are not my target audience.
Hey, strange timing as I've also just released pullpreview.com, which does work using a GitHub Action, with no need for a k8s cluster either since it runs on cheap Lightsail instances provisioned on demand.
Big advantage of Actions is that we never see the client's code, which is a big plus in terms of security.
Surely there is space for different approaches, so all the best with your project!
@crohr huh, that's funny. I guess great minds think alike. Would you be interested in some sort of partnership perhaps? My instances also run on Lightsail.