Rebooting DevStructure

It's been a busy month at the (virtual) DevStructure office. We've listened to feedback, learned from how you're using our tools and thought about the direction we should be heading. Today we're announcing several changes, a reboot of sorts, designed to streamline your workflow and decentralize our service. 

  1. Blueprints are now stored in local Git repositories, with an option to push them to DevStructure. We think of blueprints as changing snapshots of your server, so Git is the perfect backend.
  2. A simple, local web interface for our sandbox and blueprint tools. A small Django app runs on each server, delivering an overview of local sandboxes and blueprints and an alternative to the command line interface.
  3. We no longer actively manage your servers via Puppet or login remotely. Instead, updates run via a cron job that polls our servers for new releases.
  4. It's free. We're no longer counting servers or monitoring billing plans, install it on all your servers!

Those are the biggies. Take a look and let us know what you think! Stay tuned for open source news, screencasts and more software updates. Enjoy!