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The following blog was written by Drupal Association Premium Supporting Partner, Lullabot.


A fully working website for every pull request.
 

Developers and stakeholders want the same thing: a seamless way to receive and give feedback when new code is ready for review. The good news is this primarily a technical barrier we set out to solve with Tugboat. Developers are often forced to share a single QA server amongst the team to share their work. And stakeholders are unable to immediately review the work of their team because they don't have a local development environment. Or if they do, those environments are almost always out or broken. These barriers limit our joy of collaboration and productivity of creating higher quality websites faster, with Drupal.

Tugboat automatically builds your fully working website for any snapshot of code so anyone can see what the site will actually look like before it’s merged into production. It does this by monitoring your Git repository for new or updated pull requests. Or you can integrate Tugboat’s CLI with your own CI/CD tools to automatically build branches, tags, or even individual commits. Usually, within minutes, you and the rest of the team receive a secure URL to share and review your work. It's that fast. 

We're honored Tugboat is on Gartner's Cool Vendor list for DevOps this year to: "increase velocity, raise quality, and improve auditability" using cutting-edge DevOps technology.

This new approach empowers non-technical team members to participate in the development process and collaborate in ways previously not possible. And every build comes with command-line access for developers and visual regression testing to compare the before and after changes to the site. 


Command line access and visual regression testing for every build.
 

While Tugboat can serve any Linux based project (Wordpress, NodeJS, Symfony, Laravel, Django, etc.), Lullabot has used Tugboat these last 5 years primarily with Drupal. We have build scripts to support Drupal 7 and Drupal 8. Or if you're hosting at Pantheon and want access to unlimited environments, take a look at our Pantheon setup guide. 

For a limited time, we are offering free accounts on Tugboat, and paid plans for unlimited developers and unlimited repositories. 

No more waiting for the QA server. No more guessing what the site will look like.

Grab your free Tugboat account today and experience the benefits of a collaborative development process with your entire team!