The Roost platform on-demand creates an ephemeral environment to test each and every change and release it to production in real-time. The platform completely eliminates the need to have shared and static environments for testing.

The Roost platform continuously scans source-code repositories and auto-discovers environment configuration and dependencies from all your favorite tools like: Kubernetes YMYL files, Docker files, Docker compose, Helm charts, Terraform files, AWS CloudFormation, etc.

Figure 1. The Roost platform automatically scans source-code repositories and auto-discovers configuration files, artifacts and dependencies from all your favorite tools.

The Roost platform's proprietary scanning process automates your build, deploy and test configuration for each of your pull requests (PRs). The Roost platform also provides templates (YMLs) that automatically defines your infrastructure and can be part of your source code repositories. 

Due to the complex nature of applications there will be multiple definition files of the service. The Roost control plane helps define and manage these configurations and automatically saves them to the source code. The Roost platform can create Kubernetes or Docker-based environments on AWS, GCP, or Azure as displayed below.

Figure 2. The Roost platform can manage multiple configuration files
for multiple applications all within the control plane.

How the Roost platform works with IaC scripts like Terraform or AWS CloudFormation

Figure 3. Roost uses infrastructure as code (IaC) components defined in Terraform or CloudFormation scripts ensuring that the environment is created the way it was originally architected.

If you already have your infrastructure as code (IaC) components defined in Terraform or AWS CloudFormation, Roost will ensure that your infrastructure is created the way it was defined. This way, you can create or use your cloud-native infrastructure to run your application on demand with every pull request.

Once the change has been merged, or testing has been completed, the Roost platform automatically tears down configuration of the environments and will gracefully destroy the environment ensuring cloud costs are no longer being consumed.