Name: Tugboat
Rating: 10 (1 reviews)
Author: Lullabot

Help Desk

Web and Video Conferencing

Customer Support

Feature Management

Functional Testing

Mind Mapping

Development

Business Intelligence (BI)

Calibration Management

Collaboration

Dropshipping

Enterprise Search

Integrated Workplace Management (IWMS)

Intellectual Property (IP) Management

Enterprise

Accounting

Payment Gateway

Finance and Accounting

Applicant Tracking

Corporate Learning Management

Course Authoring

Employee Performance Management

HR Management

On-Demand Payment

Payroll

Resume Parsing

Talent Intelligence

Talent Management

Workforce Analytics

Workforce Management

eLearning Content

Human Resources

3D Printers

3D Printing

Business Process Automation

Cloud Storage

Configuration Management

DevSecOps

Disk Cloning

Fraud Detection

IT Professional Services

Integration Platform as a Service (iPaaS)

Interoperability

Metadata Management

Network Access Control (NAC)

Network Performance Monitoring

Remote Monitoring and Management

SaaS Backup

Scale-Out Storage

Server Virtualization

Static Application Security Testing (SAST)

Storage Area Network

Test Management

Information Technology

A/B Testing

Ad Serving & Retargeting

All-in-One Marketing

Content Management

Ecommerce Personalization

Email Marketing

Event Management

Marketing Attribution

Marketing Automation

Search Marketing Intelligence

Social Media Advertising

Social Media Management

Survey & Forms Building

Web Analytics

Marketing

Project Management

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Professional Services

Customer Relationship Management (CRM)

Sales

Secure Service Edge (SSE)

Security

Car Rental

Construction Accounting

Direct Secure Messaging

Home Health Care

Hospital Management

Medical Office EMR & EHR

Population Health Management

Veterinary

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Tugboat is a tool designed to create customizable, containerized environments for engineering teams. Its main use case is the creation of Previews, which serve various purposes such as temporary staging, QA testing, code reviews, and more complex DevOps tasks. According to Tugboat QA, LLC, the product caters to small to large companies across professions and industries, including software developers, DevOps engineers, web development agencies, technology companies, and digital agencies.

## Key Features

**Data-first testing and review environments**: Tugboat provides data-first testing and review environments within a serverless platform. These environments, known as Previews, allow teams to test and review their code before deployment.

**Designed for Developers**: Tugboat is designed specifically for developers, offering them the necessary tools for complex deployments. Developers can work directly in Git, declaring the required infrastructure services without the need to learn a new deployment process.

**Supplement your existing CI/CD**: Tugboat allows teams to enhance their existing CI/CD processes with last-mile audits, identifying and resolving critical issues before deployment. The platform automates manual reviews, aiming to ensure fool-proof deployments.

**Deploy previews for every pull request**: Tugboat automatically generates deploy previews for every pull request made to popular code repositories like GitHub, GitLab, or Bitbucket. These previews provide teams with a real environment to visualize code changes.

**Infrastructure you need, when you need it**: Tugboat provides on-demand infrastructure services, eliminating the need to learn a specific deployment process. Teams can declare the required infrastructure services directly in Git, aiming to ensure consistent and reliable deployments.

**Deploy anywhere**: Tugboat offers flexible deployment options, allowing teams to deploy their previews to their preferred hosting environment. Whether it's Acquia, Heroku, Pantheon, GitLab, or others, teams have control over their previews and can choose the hosting provider that suits their needs.

**Efficient and scalable testing and review processes**: Tugboat's serverless platform aims to ensure efficient and scalable testing and review processes. With automated Previews, teams can catch issues or bugs early in the development process, aiming to improve overall code quality.

**Elegant and flexible developer tools**: Tugboat provides elegant and flexible developer tools, including a CLI for terminal interaction and API integration for larger workflows. These tools enable developers to work seamlessly within their preferred environments.

**Full control over previews**: Tugboat aims to give teams full control over their previews, allowing them to choose where to host them. Whether it's Acquia, Heroku, AWS, or other hosting options, teams can customize their previews according to their specific requirements.

**Infrastructure-as-code approach**: Tugboat follows an infrastructure-as-code approach, aiming to eliminate configuration drift and ensure consistent and reliable deployments. Teams can deploy their previews with the confidence that the infrastructure is accurately represented in their code.

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Upgrades and platform fixes

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