Features

Squash Docker Registry

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squashlabs, January 29, 2020

Squash has  a built-in Docker Registry that you can use to easily store and retrieve Docker images from your applications. How it works When Squash builds a new version of your app it will automatically create a new image and push it to the registry, if the build is successful. New subsequent builds will automatically

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Pipelines

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squashlabs, January 27, 2020

This feature is currently not available for accounts under the free plan. For more details please go to our plans page. Squash allows you to define multiple pipelines to handle the most complex use cases for executing automated scripts and even shipping code to production environments. Use cases Run all your unit tests, regression/functional tests

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Multi-repository applications

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squashlabs, December 2, 2019

Squash supports applications made of several microservices defined within separate repositories. There are currently three ways to get such apps running in Squash: Using the deployment dependencies feature. Squash creates a unique VM for each independent repository and attach them all together through environment variables. This requires very little setup. You may also share one

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Non-HTTP based deployments

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squashlabs, August 30, 2019

Squash supports launching service based deployments without an HTTP end point. This is helpful if you want to spin up a read-only database or any services that you want to share with one or more feature deployments. This is currently only supported within the Squash YAML file. How it works First you need to define

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Kubernetes

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squashlabs, July 22, 2019

Squash has native support for Kubernetes (k8s). Currently this option is only available through the Squash YAML file. In order to get started you need to add the deployment_type: kubernetes field in the Squash YAML file, for all applications that are Kubernetes based. Then use our Kubernetes specific YAML file fields to customize your applications

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Deployment Dependencies

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squashlabs, June 11, 2019

This feature is currently not available for accounts under the free plan. For more details please go to our plans page. Squash supports linking apps/microservices from multiple code repositories. This facilitates the deployment of complex apps with multiple microservices living in separate repositories. You may also define dependencies such as a database service running on

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Automated Checks

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squashlabs, May 10, 2019

This feature is currently not available for accounts under the free plan. For more details please go to our plans page. Squash can automatically start new deployments based on each commit and act similar to a Continuous Integration (CI) system. This gives you the power to check if a Squash build is successful and returning

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Persistent Storage

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squashlabs, April 12, 2019

Note: currently this feature is not available for Kubernetes based deployments. We will be adding this soon. You can enable the persistent storage feature when you need to keep your data intact between deployment restarts. This feature comes with a few important details: Squash automatically skips the application build process when persistent storage is enabled.

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Deployment Cache

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squashlabs, April 12, 2019

The Deployment Cache (DC) is a good way to speed up the build process of deployments. This feature is enabled by default on all repositories. Squash generates a cache snapshot for the following types of apps, across all branches in a repository: A Squash YAML file, in case you are not using Docker Each unique

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Auto Shutdown policies

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squashlabs, April 12, 2019

The auto shutdown policies are a great way to eliminate server waste, allowing your Squash deployments to stay active only when you need them, and no more. Below are listed several policies you can use to fit your needs. Date & Time Policy Deployments with this policy will automatically terminate at a given date and

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PR Comments

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squashlabs, April 12, 2019

Squash automatically adds a comment on each Pull Request with a unique URL per branch of code.   When you click on such URLs Squash will create a new virtual machine and will immediately display a loading page like this: and then it will start deploying your branch’s code. When your application build process is

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Microservices support

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squashlabs, April 12, 2019

Squash offers multiple ways to deploy applications based on a microservices architecture. Once you decide what integration method to use (YAML file, Docker or Kubernetes) you can then have Squash to automatically create deployments for each branch of code and integrate with Pull/Merge Requests. YAML file For apps without Docker you can define multiple applications

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Notification of code changes

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squashlabs, April 12, 2019

Once a deployment is up and running Squash can automatically notify when there are new commits pushed to branch associated with your deployment. You can restart the deployment anytime to get the latest version. This is how the notification UI looks like, it will show up within the deployment URL itself (where you have your

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Custom domains & custom SSL

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squashlabs, April 12, 2019

This feature is currently not available for accounts under the free plan. For more details please go to our plans page. You can add one or more custom domains to your account and we will add a Free SSL certificate for each domain. Custom domains will look like this: Squash supports a maximum of one

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Subdomain & multi-level subdomains

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squashlabs, April 12, 2019

Squash supports a special syntax for dealing with any level of subdomains. This allows your application subdomains to still work with SSL/HTTPS without the need of separate SSL certificates. If you are curious, Squash also supports custom domains & custom/Free SSL. Here is how it works: Squash translates any double dashes (–) within the hostname and converts them to subdomains

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