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Livecycle vs PullPreview
Livecycle offers collaborative previews for any stack but is a SaaS service, not self-hosted.
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LivecycleCollaborative preview environments for any stack and every workflow.
PullPreviewDeployment previews for your pull requests, on servers you controlSide by side
- What it is
- Livecycle:Collaborative preview environments for any stack and every workflow.
- PullPreview:PullPreview is a GitHub Action that creates live preview environments for PRs on your own AWS Lightsail or Hetzner servers.
- Best for
- Livecycle:SaaS collaborative preview environments
- PullPreview:Self-hosted pull-request preview environments
- Who it’s for
- Livecycle:—
- PullPreview:Developers, product owners, ops and CTOs who want self-hosted PR previews.
- Pricing
- Livecycle:Free
- PullPreview:Paid
- Plans
- Livecycle:—
- PullPreview:Commercial license 300€/year per organization
- Open source
- Livecycle:—
- PullPreview:Yes, 201 GitHub stars
- Works with
- Livecycle:—
- PullPreview:Docker Compose, AWS Lightsail, Hetzner, Caddy
- DevHunt upvotes
- Livecycle:52
- PullPreview:13
- Launched on DevHunt
- Livecycle:Jan 2023
- PullPreview:Jan 2023
Livecycle features
Collaborative preview environments for any stack and every workflow.
PullPreview features
- Docker-Compose previews. Deploys any app that runs with Docker Compose without code rewrites.
- Runs in your cloud account. Uses your own AWS Lightsail or Hetzner VMs, keeping code and data in-house.
- PR-lifecycle integration. Creates previews on label, redeploys on push, comments status and cleans up on unlabel.
- Persistent state. Docker volumes keep preview data between redeploys.
- Auto HTTPS & custom domains. Caddy sidecar provides Let’s Encrypt certificates automatically.
- Scoped SSH access. Reviewers can SSH using their GitHub keys, no extra credentials needed.
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