Signadot

tl;dr: If you’re running microservices, you can now use Signadot to help developers ship features faster using lightweight dev environments. These environments spin up in seconds within a Kubernetes cluster that you run and scale well across hundreds of developers and microservices without incurring large infrastructure costs or maintenance burdens. These environments are built on top of “Sandboxes”, a new approach that is used in companies like Uber and Lyft and we’re excited to make that available to everyone.

We launched about a year ago, with a focus on preview & test environments in Kubernetes. With our latest update, we’re adding the following new capabilities:

• Developers can now run the dev version of a microservice on their laptop and seamlessly connect it to a shared Kubernetes cluster and start testing as though the whole application were running locally. They get 10x faster feedback by testing their changes in a live Kubernetes environment during active development.
• Multiple such dev environments can be combined together to test different microservices with each other as they're being developed. This means developers can collaborate and get a feature spanning different microservices working end-to-end long before their code gets merged or hits a staging/production environment.

How does it work?

Just as before, we use request routing (using a Service Mesh like Istio or a sidecar-based system that we built) to isolate these environments from one another in a shared Kubernetes cluster.

Read more about our launch here, or watch a video of how teams use these dev environments here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HXUmPJTdwm0

How do I get access

Just sign up using https://www.signadot.com/signup and try one of our quickstart guides. Feedback is much appreciated!