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What is Tugboat?

In the realm of continuous integration and deployment, Tugboat stands out as a powerful ally for developers. Tugboat is a data-first testing and review environment platform that allows teams to deploy with confidence, leveraging a robust, serverless infrastructure designed to streamline and simplify complex deployments.

Key Features of Tugboat

1. Designed for Developers:

- Infrastructure as Code: Tugboat eliminates the need for a dedicated DevOps team by enabling developers to declare infrastructure services directly within Git. This approach ensures consistent and reliable deployments without the hassle of configuration drift.

- Developer Tools: Tugboat offers a variety of tools that enhance developer productivity, including a command-line interface (CLI), API integration, and shell access from the dashboard.

2. Test & Deploy:

- Ephemeral Infrastructure: Tugboat provides self-service ephemeral environments, allowing developers to test and deploy changes in isolated environments that mirror production settings.

- Visual Regression Testing: Integrated visual regression testing ensures that changes do not inadvertently affect the visual presentation of the application.

- Google Lighthouse Integration: Tugboat includes Google Lighthouse integration for performance and accessibility audits.

- Comprehensive CI/CD Support: Tugboat complements existing CI/CD pipelines by adding critical last-mile audits, and turning manual reviews into automated, fool-proof deployments.

3. Versatile and Scalable:

- Deploy Previews: Automatically generate deploy previews for every pull request, giving teams real-time feedback on changes.

- Flexible Hosting: Tugboat supports a variety of hosting options, including Blackmesh, Linode, Pantheon, Heroku, AWS, WordPress VIP, Rackspace, and Acquia. For organizations with stringent security requirements, on-premise options are also available.

- End-to-End Visibility: Tugboat provides full visibility throughout the development process, ensuring that teams can track changes and deployments with ease.

Why Choose Tugboat?

- Scalability: Tugboat’s infrastructure scales to meet the demands of your team, offering unlimited users and deploy previews at a flat rate.

- Flexibility: Tugboat’s workflows adapt to your team’s needs, making it easier to integrate into existing processes and deploy anywhere.

- Control: Gain complete control over your deploy previews and choose where to host them based on your organizational requirements.

Real-World Applications

- Customer Stories: Companies like Chromatic and Simplytest.me have leveraged Tugboat to build best-in-class DevOps practices and empower community-led development of open-source software.

- Lullabot’s Success: As a 100% employee-owned company, Lullabot uses Tugboat internally to ship better code to more clients, enhancing their development and deployment processes.

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