Since we are a small shop, a lot of us wear multiple hats. We have to handle setting up multiple environments (dev, staging, production) and configuring deployment between environments, etc. Cloud66 actually assists us in a lot of different ways. Some of the features that interest us are being able to deploy a server in multiple cloud environments. We use AWS, Linode and to some extent Digital Ocean. Being able to spin up, configure and lock down a server with a couple of clicks helps us be nimble and efficient in our dev ops related tasks. The ability to scale out our application under load, via a couple clicks, is another extremely helpful feature. The web admin helps abstract a lot of the manual tasks we would have to do by logging in to every machine or scripting it out. One of my favorite features is that I can log in to a running container via the CLI with 1 command. I have had troubleshoot issues with containers and this feature has really helped out quite a bit.

Apart from staples like backups, a super-easy replication and ActiveProtect, I really like how periodic rake tasks can be managed straight from the web interface. A small thing, but still very nice.