Shipyard

Shipyard is a self-service environment management platform that automatically creates full-stack, ephemeral environments for every pull request. It empowers development, QA, and product teams to test, review, and iterate on features in parallel, accelerating deployment cycles and improving software quality.

Features

• Automated environment creation for every pull request
• Full-stack preview environments identical to production
• GitHub and GitLab integration
• Docker Compose-based configuration
• Shareable URLs for asynchronous collaboration
• Secure, short-lived environments with automatic teardown
• Custom dashboards for QA and product teams
• Support for multi-repo applications
• CORS and domain configuration options
• Real-time build logs and monitoring

Capabilities

• Parallel testing of features across isolated environments
• Continuous integration with CI/CD pipelines
• End-to-end and unit test execution in production-like setups
• User Acceptance Testing (UAT) during development
• Early bug detection and regression prevention
• Seamless collaboration between developers, QA, and product teams
• Environment customization via Compose overrides
• Role-specific workflows for DevOps, QA, and product teams

Benefits

• Faster feature delivery and reduced release cycles
• Improved test reliability and reduced staging bottlenecks
• Enhanced team collaboration without screen-sharing or scheduling
• Early feedback integration for better product decisions
• Reduced context switching for QA engineers
• Increased deployment confidence and customer satisfaction
• Lower infrastructure overhead through ephemeral environments