Hi. We're the Tugboat team. Tugboat is a web application preview tool built and backed by Lullabot. We're giving Tugboat to the Drupal community to empower you to continue to make the web and our world a better place.
It's no coincidence that Tugboat is supporting Drupal and the community in this way: Drupal is a huge part of Tugboat's beginnings. That's because Lullabot built Tugboat for their clients, to automatically provide fully working previews of in-progress Drupal development work.
It started off humble—as a collection of scripts that pulled down production data, created new sandbox environments with new and in-progress work, and posted back a link to that environment on the pull request that the entire team could access.
From those humble beginnings, we've continued to hone the tool to better support large enterprise web applications. We've made it so that an enterprise Drupal site with gigs and gigs of data can have a fully working preview in seconds, not hours. We created outbound email capturing so you can preview any email Drupal sends. We’ve got visual regression testing and accessibility auditing baked in. We added domain and path aliasing to support Drupal multisite. We've got a REST API, a command-line tool, shell access to every service, and the list goes on: that’s because when Drupal developers encounter an issue with previewing large, enterprise Drupal, Tugboat strives to meet that need.
Since Drupal is such a huge part of our history, it's no coincidence that we decided to support the Drupal community by providing the Tugboat software to support the ongoing development work of core and contrib. We're extremely grateful for the opportunity to give back to the Drupal community in this way.
Let us know what you think of Tugboat. You can sign up for free to try it out on your own projects—no strings attached. If you have questions, or would like a demo, reach out. Thanks for all you do for Drupal, for the community, for open source software, and for the world.
