Environments-as-a-service platform ReleaseHub raises $20M

ReleaseHub, an environments-as-a-service (EaaS) platform that serves software program builders all of the parts to run their purposes and information on-demand in an remoted setting, has raised $20 million in a sequence A spherical of funding.

ReleaseHub is getting down to simplify software program growth by making it simple to create environments round any code commit, for efficiency testing, high quality assurance (QA), information migrations, gross sales demos, and extra. Its prospects, which embody Shogun, Monad, and Simon Data, combine their supply management system of alternative (e.g. GitHub) with ReleaseHub, which then creates non permanent branch-based environments with each code-push or pull request.

“Environments seem when they’re wanted, as an example when a pull request on a department has been created a full stack setting for that department can be created so the function could be examined, previewed by product, [or] examined by QA,” ReleaseHub cofounder and CEO Tommy McClung advised VentureBeat. “When the department is merged, the setting goes away. Usually, a corporation could have one or only a few staging environments, so collaboration round these options has to attend till the developer’s code makes its option to staging.”

ReleaseHub counts native integrations with the likes of DockerHub, JFrog’s Artifactory, Amazon’s managed Kubernetes service EKS, LaunchDarkly, and supply management platforms GitHub, Bitbucket, and GitLab, whereas it additionally presents an API so builders can create environments from inside different CI/CD pipelines corresponding to GitHub Actions, CircleCI, and Jenkins.

Above: ReleaseHub: Environments

Pleasant setting

EaaS is considerably associated to the extra acquainted platform-as-a-service (PaaS) cloud computing idea, in that it helps builders concentrate on their apps and never fear concerning the complexity of constructing and sustaining the infrastructure corresponding to servers, storage, networking, growth instruments, and databases. Nevertheless, corporations usually should construct one thing themselves in-house utilizing a mix of instruments corresponding to Rancher, Harness, and Spinnaker, or use an built-in resolution corresponding to Heroku or Amazon’s Elastic Beanstalk.

The build-your-own strategy requires vital sources when it comes to engineering expertise and time, whereas many of the vendor-led options don’t supply the extensibility and adaptability an organization wants as they develop — builders are restricted by regardless of the vendor decides to assist when it comes to third-party integrations and add-ons.

ReleaseHub, however, guarantees no infrastructure limitations, because it runs fully throughout the buyer’s personal AWS or GCP accounts. “If a buyer had been to go away ReleaseHub, their infrastructure would stay theirs, together with any and all artifacts ReleaseHub created to provide the environments,” McClung mentioned.

Curiously, McClung additionally famous that some organizations are already migrating from Heroku onto ReleaseHub.

“ReleaseHub offers a developer expertise that’s pleasant like Heroku’s, however permits the group to reap the benefits of all the pieces the cloud supplier has to supply, with out compromise,” he added.

Based out of San Francisco in 2019, ReleaseHub entered the Y Cominbator (YC) Winter 2020 batch and shortly after raised a $2.7 million seed spherical of funding led by Sequoia and formally exited beta. The corporate’s newest sequence A spherical was led by CRV, with participation from Sequoia, YC, Bow Capital, Artisanal Ventures, Hack VC, and a slew of angel traders.