Runnable Sandboxes: Full-stack environments for every GitHub branch

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Post by hiphipjorge » Thu, Mar 17, 2016, 1:50 PM UTC

Runnable Sandboxes: Full-stack environments for every GitHub branch
blog.runnable.com

Re: Runnable Sandboxes: Full-stack environments for every GitHub branch

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Post by ykumar6 » Thu, Mar 17, 2016, 2:03 PM UTC

Hey All - Founder here. Happy to answer any questions or discuss some of the problems we've solved building on Docker.

Re: Runnable Sandboxes: Full-stack environments for every GitHub branch

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Post by jfdk » Thu, Mar 17, 2016, 2:14 PM UTC

ykumar6 wrote: post #2

Hey All - Founder here. Happy to answer any questions or discuss some of the problems we've solved building on Docker.

What does Runnable allow me to do that I can't on CircleCI?

Re: Runnable Sandboxes: Full-stack environments for every GitHub branch

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Post by ogrisel » Thu, Mar 17, 2016, 2:14 PM UTC

This looks very similar to what is offered by https://platform.sh/ . Anybody familiar with both could contrast them?

Re: Runnable Sandboxes: Full-stack environments for every GitHub branch

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Post by ykumar6 » Thu, Mar 17, 2016, 2:17 PM UTC

jfdk wrote: post #3

ykumar6 wrote: post #2

Hey All - Founder here. Happy to answer any questions or discuss some of the problems we've solved building on Docker.

What does Runnable allow me to do that I can't on CircleCI?

CircleCI doesn't host your containers. They just build and test them. Runnable runs actual environments for your branches

Re: Runnable Sandboxes: Full-stack environments for every GitHub branch

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Post by ChristianBundy » Thu, Mar 17, 2016, 2:26 PM UTC

ykumar6 wrote: post #2

Hey All - Founder here. Happy to answer any questions or discuss some of the problems we've solved building on Docker.

I think this is going to be the future if you can find product market fit. I'd transition my team over to Runnable, but we just finished writing our own Docker deployment system.

Re: Runnable Sandboxes: Full-stack environments for every GitHub branch

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Post by ryanrichards » Thu, Mar 17, 2016, 2:27 PM UTC

ogrisel wrote: post #4

This looks very similar to what is offered by https://platform.sh/ . Anybody familiar with both could contrast them?

According to the website it looks like platform.sh has a focus on drupal, symphony, & php while runnable is platform agnostic.

Re: Runnable Sandboxes: Full-stack environments for every GitHub branch

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Post by prafulrana » Thu, Mar 17, 2016, 2:29 PM UTC

Do you guys support large databases and can every branch get its own database?

Re: Runnable Sandboxes: Full-stack environments for every GitHub branch

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Post by appleton » Thu, Mar 17, 2016, 2:30 PM UTC

Sounds a lot like Heroku review apps[1]

1: https://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/github-integration-rev...

Re: Runnable Sandboxes: Full-stack environments for every GitHub branch

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Post by ykumar6 » Thu, Mar 17, 2016, 2:32 PM UTC

prafulrana wrote: post #8

Do you guys support large databases and can every branch get its own database?

Yes, every branch can get a clone of your gigabyte database. This works by applying Copy-on-Write to the containers running your stateful containers.

So it becomes very easy to test schema changes and migrations with this approach