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Gitlab is great for someone already using it and is familiar with their configuration syntax.

Dockup has these:

- Seeding DBs with prod-like data is easy and works super fast so you don't have to wait around for a long time until you do a database dump/restore. We can do this in Dockup because we can maintain a pool of single-use DBs for your deployments.

- Deployment form to mix and match different versions of your apps (example: you can try how branch-foo of frontend and branch-bar of backend work together)

- Users who know how to write Dockerfiles can easily setup Dockup. Many of our users are project managers and QA and they find the UI easy to use.

Thank you!

- Regarding configuration - you need Dockerfiles for your apps and also configure environment variables and ports in Dockup. We call this configuration a "blueprint", which once created will be the template for your automated deployments. Unlike Vagrant, Dockup runs your apps on the cloud and you get URLs in your slack channel when someone opens a PR.

- Our pull request reviews (we use Dockup while developing Dockup :D) actually use production environment. We simply use a postgres container as the database and turn off analytics in our Dockup environments.

- Yes we do get requests for on-premise installations and we do support that. In fact, when we started, we only supported on-premise and later made the SaaS version. If you want to just self-host the infra and use Dockup UI, you can do it right now by signing up for the self-hosted plan.

What did the tool do?

Thanks for the explanation. Curious to know this - when and to whom do you usually mention this term (work-spouse). As for me, I have never had a need to use a term that represents such kind of work relationship, "a good colleague" usually conveys the message.

Agreed. The idea of marriage does not really apply in the relationship described. If you have a great colleague, you don't need to name that relationship with a term like "work husband" or "work wife" which btw puts gender into the equation where it isn't necessary. What's wrong with saying "work buddy" or something else that more accurately represents the relationship.

Is it okay for a female to find a work spouse in another female? Is it okay to have multiple work wives? I am a guy and there are guys at office who I trust, have the same sense of humor etc. Am I work-gay? I don't get this.

Visualixir looks interesting. I'll give it a shot and add some notes to the article. Thanks for mentioning :)

14 pt Menlo Regular. Pic : https://cloud.githubusercontent.com/assets/1707078/3491472/9...

Exactly! VisualCloud lets you drag and drop your cloud resources on a stage and then configure your instances and provision the whole deployment with the click of a button.

Please do checkout the screencast on the homepage :)

Did I just see actual dead people's avatars there ?