We work on special things here, Docker implied, but cannot talk too much about it!

Cloud 66 eliminated the need for DevOps altogether and allowed us to just focus on our core business.

Our servers are now secure, up to date and backed up. Happy Devs and Ops all around.

Docker made a lot of sense to us because we could tightly control our application's environment and eliminate server drift.

Our experience with Cloud66 has been astounding. We can concentrate on development without worrying about deployments or ops costs, while still maintaining fine-grained control of our servers if we need it!

Cloud 66 does such a good job, I don't need to think about it. It just works.

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.