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Sandbar snapshots your container after the slow parts of the build and restores it on every pull request. Reviewers get a live URL before the CI badge finishes turning green.
Where Shorewall fits
Shorewall sits in the apis corner of most stacks, and is aimed at teams who have outgrown doing this part by hand. It runs on Web, and is a paid product.
It is a closed-source product, so evaluate it the way you would any vendor you plan to build a workflow around.
What you get on day one
Snapshot and restore in under 2s, and database seeding per branch, automatic teardown on merge, works with any dockerfile. The setup is deliberately small: the maker's argument is that a tool you have to schedule a migration for is a tool you will not adopt.
Whether that holds for your team depends on what you already run. The listing below and the feedback from other makers are the fastest way to find out.
What it does
- Snapshot and restore in under 2s
- Database seeding per branch
- Automatic teardown on merge
- Works with any Dockerfile
Feedback 3
Feedback is public and shown to the maker.
Sign in- Mara Ellis @maraellis 2d
Been using this on a 40-table schema all week. The rollback generation alone saved me twice. One request: a dry-run flag that prints the SQL without touching anything.
- Devin Roy @droy 3d
The plain-language summaries are the killer feature. My non-technical PM can review migrations now, which I did not expect to ever type.
- Sana Qureshi @sanaq 4d
Works well with Postgres. MySQL support felt a bit behind, the enum diffing missed a case for me. Filed an issue and got a response the same day.