Overview
Spin up a full copy of production for each pull request, keep it warm until it hatches, then clean up the shells automatically.
Incubator is part of our Cloud & Infrastructure line, and it plays nicely with NestKube and Brooder, so you can adopt it one perch at a time. Store, serve, and scale from a coop that never needs mucking out.
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
- Automatic failover to a healthy hen when a node stops laying.
- Free-range networking: packets roam freely within the VPC (Very Pleasant Coop).
- A status page that crows when there is an incident, not after.
- Multi-coop replication keeps your eggs in more than one basket, as advised by every proverb.
- Terraform, Pulumi, and plain old shell scripts all work. Even the scripts that scratch the dirt.
Specifications
| Regions | 41 coops worldwide |
|---|---|
| Uptime SLA | 99.999% (five nines, no yolk-breaks) |
| Max throughput | 10,000 pecks/sec |
| Data durability | 11 nines of egg safety |
| SKU | PS-CLOUD-006 |
| Category | Cloud & Infrastructure |
| Released | 2024-06-18 |
| Current version | 2.4.8 |
Plans
Chick
Free
For one hen and a dream.
- 1 seat
- Community support
- Core features
- Watermarked with a tiny egg
Hen
$29/mo
For flocks that lay every day.
- Up to 25 seats
- Email and chat support
- Everything in Chick
- Integrations with the flock
Rooster
$116/mo
For the whole barnyard.
- Unlimited seats
- 24/7 clucking support
- SSO and audit logs
- A named support goose
Quick start
$ cluck install incubator
$ cluck incubator init --coop us-east-1
✔ Incubator hatched in 3.1s
✔ Connected to coop us-east-1 (33 hens online)
Next: cluck incubator --helpNeed more? The cluck install reference covers flags, and the getting started guide covers everything else.
What the flock says
We replaced three tools with Incubator and nobody has asked where the old ones went.
It is, in the words of our CFO, "fine, actually good". We have it on tape.
Setup took one afternoon, and the only thing we scratched was our heads, briefly.
Frequently asked questions
How often is Incubator updated?
Every two weeks, on a Tuesday, shortly after the rooster crows. Release notes live in the changelog.
Where is my data stored?
In the coop you pick at sign-up. Data never leaves that region unless you tell it to. Chickens like to know where they live.
Does Incubator 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.