Namespace is an application development platform that helps you manage your development, testing, and production workflows, in a consistent and unified way.
You describe the servers in your application, how they're built, their relationship, and which additional resources they need. And from that description -- built out of a set of composable and extensible blocks -- Namespace orchestrates:
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Build: start with your Dockerfiles, or use one of our language-specific integrations, so you don't have to manage Dockerfiles manually. Apart from their ease of use, language-specific integrations set up your build and development environment with the latest best practices and make harder things simple (e.g., support multiple platforms).
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Development environment: With Namespace, you don't need to manage your development dependencies manually -- the days of asking folks in the team to install the right SDK versions will be gone. Instead, we'll manage SDKs and dependencies on your behalf. As a result, getting someone new onboarded into the application development environment will take minutes rather than hours or days.
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Representative environments: How often have you hit bugs in production or testing that are hard to reproduce locally? Namespace helps you bridge the gap between environments, managing production-like environments across development and testing.
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Effortless end-to-end testing: When you have an application setup with Namespace, writing an end-to-end system test becomes simple. From the same application definition used to set up a development environment, Namespace is also capable of creating ephemeral testing environments used to run end-to-end tests.
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Kubernetes: (but you don't need to care). We help you and your team to think about concepts you care about: services, resources, backends, etc. Under the covers, you'll find industry-standard Kubernetes and CNCF projects, which means that as you grow or need, you can easily tap into the broad Kubernetes ecosystem. No hidden implementation, and no vendor lock-in.
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Packaged dependencies: adding support infrastructure or a resource -- whether it's a storage bucket, a database, a messaging system, etc. -- it's as simple as adding a dependency to your application.
To get started follow our getting started guide. After
installing ns
, explore some of the examples our team put
together.
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