Welcome to Release

What is Release?
Release makes it incredibly easy to manage environments so your team can focus on building value for your customers. Release can build environments in our cloud or yours, from the simplest (static javascript) to most complex (microservices with many cloud native dependencies) applications. Release supports production and pre-production environments and every step from code push to environment creation is completely automated. We track your source changes then build new preview environments automatically for every feature, freeing you to focus on the things that matter.
A great way to get started with Release is to create ephemeral environments on every Pull Request to preview changes with stakeholders. Once you're using Release, you'll realize quickly there are many other use-cases, including:
Cloud based environments with micro-service dependencies that make local micro-service development easy
Replacing your permanent staging environment infrastructure
Ephemeral environments to test and preview changes with every PR
Scalable performance test environments 
Environments for developers to experiment with new infrastructure
Sales demo environments 
On-demand environments for large migrations and testing 
Production environments based on Kubernetes
When environments are simple to create, your teams will be enabled to move quickly without worrying about environments... ever.
Here you'll find documentation to help you get up and running with Release and explain the major concepts.
Here's how you can get involved with Release:
​Request a Demo of  Release to get started​
​Send questions directly to the team​
Why should I use Release?
Wouldn't it be great if your team could focus on building software for your customers without having to spend an endless amount of time managing infrastructure and environments? With Release, all of the management and tooling required to build a flexible environment ecosystem comes out of the box. You just connect your repositories, review your environment template and environment variables and let Release do the rest. You'll  deliver higher quality solutions, faster !
Goals of Release
Eliminate time spent managing environments
Allow development teams a simple, easy way to reproduce environments for any reason
Allow for a common, consistent way to define and maintain applications and environments
Provide the ability to have a parallel environment infrastructure that removes software delivery bottlenecks
Make developing microservices easy
Make environments integrate into developer workflows for a delightful developer experience
Enable DevOps teams to focus on high value work vs building the same tooling over and over again
Release Overview
​Release overview - An overview of the Release platform and core concepts.
Getting Started
​Prepare to use Release - Preparing your repository and application to run in Release.
​Create an application - A getting started guide to creating your first application.
​Common Setup Examples - Examples of common things you'll need to do when creating your environments with Release.
Examples
We've built three examples to show you the range of applications you can create on Release.
​Simple Static Site Example - Gatsby Starter Theme. This app demonstrates building environments with a simple Gatsby Javascript site.
​Docker example - Voting App - a multi-service Docker application example.
​Hybrid - Docker and Static Site - React, Express, MySQL - This app demonstrates environments running a more complex setup with both static Javascript, Docker services and a MySQL database.
​Example Library - We built our Awesome-Release Github organization and stuffed it full of examples for tons of different frameworks. Find them here.
Reference Guide
​Admin/Account Settings - Managing users and settings in Release.
​Default Environment configuration - Overview of the configuration of environments that all environments receive when they are created.
​Default Environment Variables - Overview of environment variables in Release.
​Environment Specific Configuration - Instantiated environment configuration which allows you to override the default environment configuration on an environment by environment basis.
​Instant Datasets - Create instantly available production or seed databases for your environments.
​Source Control Integrations - Overview of source control settings and configuration.
​Static Service Deployment - Overview of static service configuration and deployment with Release.
​.release.yaml File - Overview of the release.yaml file you can place in your repository root to instruct Release to select the right configuration files for your application.
FAQ - Frequently Asked Questions and Known Issues
API Documentation
​Release API -  Available API to control Release via an API.
Advanced
​Designing for multiple environments - A best practices guide for designing software for use in ephemeral environments.
​Monitoring your Release Cluster(s) - How to monitor self-hosted clusters with Release.
​External DNS - Setup external DNS to use with Release.

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