Hatchery: Release management for the big day

Overview

Plan, approve, and track releases from commit to production. When the release hatches, a notification crows in your team channel.

Hatchery is part of our Coop Operations line, and it plays nicely with FeedQueue and EggTimer, so you can adopt it one perch at a time. Ship, monitor, and roll back with the discipline of a farmer who wakes before dawn.

Teams usually start with the free Chick plan, move to Hen when the flock grows past a handful, and graduate to Rooster once the security team wants audit logs. The upgrade is one click, and nobody needs to molt.

Key features

Post-incident reviews are blameless, because nobody blames a chicken for being afraid of a fox.
Integrates with Slack, Teams, and the Gaggle messaging line.
On-call rotations that account for time zones, vacations, and molting seasons.
Dry-run mode that shows exactly what would happen without so much as ruffling a feather.
Automatic rollback when error rates climb faster than a hen up a ramp.

Specifications

Deploy time (median)	1 minute 10 seconds
Rollback time	Under 20 seconds
Integrations	35 tools
Alert channels	Email, SMS, crow
SKU	`PS-OPS-002`
Category	Coop Operations
Released	2025-01-12
Current version	`3.7.8`

Plans

Chick

Free

For one hen and a dream.

1 seat
Community support
Core features
Watermarked with a tiny egg

Hen

$33/mo

For flocks that lay every day.

Up to 25 seats
Email and chat support
Everything in Chick
Integrations with the flock

Rooster

$132/mo

For the whole barnyard.

Unlimited seats
24/7 clucking support
SSO and audit logs
A named support goose

Quick start

$ cluck install hatchery
$ cluck hatchery init --coop us-east-1

✔ Hatchery hatched in 3.5s
✔ Connected to coop us-east-1 (20 hens online)
  Next: cluck hatchery --help

Need more? The cluck install reference covers flags, and the getting started guide covers everything else.

What the flock says

★★★★☆ Cornelius C. VP Eng, Cornucopia Systems

The docs are shockingly good. We tested them by handing them to an intern.

★★★★☆ Priscilla P. Product Lead, Peckish

Four stars because I like to leave room for improvement, and for another snack.

★★★★★ Bartholomew B. Founder, Bantam & Co.

Setup took one afternoon, and the only thing we scratched was our heads, briefly.

Frequently asked questions

Does Hatchery work with the rest of the Pollosoft flock?

Absolutely. Everything shares one identity (Cage-Free SSO), one billing account (BillOfLaying), and one deeply optimistic status page.

What happens if I cancel?

You can export all of your data in open formats, and we keep a copy for 30 days in case you change your mind. We do not hold your eggs hostage.

Is Hatchery secure?

It is protected by CoopGuard at the perimeter and FeatherLock at rest, and audited annually by TalonAudit. Also, we have never lost a chicken. To our knowledge.

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