Signadot vs Release
Signadot creates lightweight sandboxes for testing microservices using request-level isolation within your existing Kubernetes cluster. Release creates complete environment replicas for broader use cases including demos and staging. Choose Signadot for faster, more cost-effective developer testing without duplicating infrastructure.
Overview Comparison
While both platforms help with environment creation, they address different needs and use different approaches:
Signadot is focused on developer testing for microservices applications. It creates lightweight "sandboxes" that operate at the request level within your existing Kubernetes cluster. These sandboxes spin up in seconds and provide true isolation without the overhead of provisioning new infrastructure, enabling developers to rapidly test their changes against real dependencies.
Release takes a different approach by creating full environment replicas for various use cases (testing, demos, staging, etc.) by provisioning new infrastructure for each environment. This approach creates complete copies of your infrastructure stack, suitable for situations where full environment replication is needed.
Comparison Table
When to Choose Signadot
Choose Signadot when you need:
- Developer-focused testing of microservices in Kubernetes environments
- Speed: Spin up test environments in seconds rather than minutes or hours
- Cost efficiency: Test at scale without duplicating infrastructure and related costs
Signadot's unique request-based isolation approach offers a compelling alternative to traditional environment duplication, making it ideal for organizations focused on accelerating microservices testing while optimizing resource usage and costs.
Try Signadot
The best way to understand whether Signadot fits your developer testing needs is to experience it firsthand. Get started with a free trial, or schedule a demo with our team to discuss your specific needs. If you're looking to accelerate developer testing for your microservices applications while keeping infrastructure costs under control, we'd love to show you how Signadot can help.
Developers love Signadot
On the margin, with the Signadot approach, 99.8% of the isolated environment's infrastructure costs look wasteful. That percentage looks like an exaggeration, but it's really not.
Before Signadot, previewing features took 30 to 40 minutes, creating a significant bottleneck in our development. Now, that time is under two minutes—a 15x productivity boost. Signadot is now essential to our streamlined process, saving hundreds of engineering hours, enabling more testing iterations, and elevating code quality.
Signadot has streamlined our deployment processes, enabling efficient testing and reducing effort in maintaining pull requests, ensuring stable, bug-free Android features and seamless team collaboration.
With Neon's rapid growth, maintaining key DORA metrics and production SLO became a challenge. Signadot's Sandboxes solution transformed our CI/CD pipelines, reducing costs and enabling effective testing. Now, we can confidently make risky changes, fostering a culture of performance-oriented engineering.
I want staging to be in a state where I'm able to push to production any day I want. The quality should be as good as prod so that I don't have to do more work after merging. This is exactly what Signadot allows us to do today. We're now running tests before merging, which means cleaner code and fewer rollbacks.
Without Signadot, developers were experiencing frequent rollbacks of code due to issues discovered late in the staging environment. Now, the developers have much more confidence in what they are deploying, resulting in fewer breaks on production.
Our vision when we started talking to Signadot was that we wanted to have the same stack for testing and production. Signadot has allowed us to do just that, bringing down the lead time for our developers to test changes from 30 minutes to literally 60 seconds.
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