Polo

Serve your application development branches

Polo is a single executable application for managing the lifecycle of an application, in a precise point in time.
This allows to build a staging environment which can spawn multiple versions of the same application.

The many versions of the same application get served by its reverse-proxy functionality.

You decide how the application needs to be started.
Tipically you may want to use Docker to containerize the application and launch it using simple commands.

Configuration files#

Configuration files must be placed in the same folder of the executable.
Once the application is started, they are continuously watched for changes.

Compatibility#

Polo is built for:

MacOS (Intel)
Linux AMD64
Windows AMD64

Glossary#

Application: represents the main configuration (backed by a .yml file) used to start your application
Checkout point: is a single commit you may want your application to start from; it can be represented as a branch, a tag or a precise commit hash
Session: is an application started at a precise checkout point; a session gets built, navigated into, stopped and recycled

Getting started#

In order to get started we must follow the installation process and configure a sample application.