Introduction

Why Are We Doing This?

Containerization has unlocked many new possibilities, but it has often fallen short of delivering true simplicity. You shouldn't need to be a DevOps expert to maintain you apps environment, nor should you have to spend money hiring one.

How It Works

Our CLI analyzes your app and generates a custom Docker image tailored for your specific requirements. It pre-configures the environment for you. So you can focus on building your app. Then you can run this environment locally or in the cloud.

Key Concepts

Tasks

Tasks are the core of Bit-Ship. They are the commands that will be run in your environment. These are fundamental building block for high level concepts like jobs and apps.

Jobs

Jobs are the sequences of tasks that will be run in your environment. They are ideal for stuff like CI/CD. You can run jobs manually or trigger them automatically based on events like git commits.

Apps

Apps tasks the represents your applications. You can define host, ports and other properties to emulate a production environment.

Vaults

Vaults are the storege for your environment variables and secrets. They can be used to store sensitive information like API keys or database passwords.

Philosophy

Opinionated

Our mission is to make development easier by taking care of the lower level complexities for you and abstract them on platform level so you can focus on building your app. We are not one size fits all solution and we know that. We are building opinionated systems that will help you ship much faster and focus on your business logic.

Voluntary

We want to build whole ecosystem of tools that will work together out of the box. But we want to make sure all of them can be used independently. You can opt in or out of any of them as you like. Our inspiration is Vue.js and its ecosystem. It provides you out of the box everything you need to build FE app, but you can pick and choose what libraries you want to use.

Don't reinvent the wheel

Bit-Ship stands on the shoulders of giants. We are trying to make development more efficient not to own the whole stack. Our goal is not to replace or any lower level tools that bit-ship uses under the hood (for example Docker). We want to use these tools so users can build on existing standards.