E2E tests & manual QA made as simple as CI.

Our Continuous Staging environments are faster & more powerful than traditional CI. All that developers see is:

Start your whole stack in seconds

We take full-memory snapshots of the CI runner every 10 seconds. That means after you docker-compose up -d, we'll take a snapshot with everything running and restore that snapshot for following CI pipelines.

Automatic demo environments

We give you a full-stack demo environment for every commit without any extra work. All you do is navigate to the per-commit link and we'll restore the environment that was created by running the CI pipeline for that commit.

Speed without needing Docker

We give a docker-like cache for an entire VM. You can run your entire stack in Layer, even if it doesn't run in Docker. All you have to do is make one or more Layerfiles, which look like a Dockerfiles and each will set up a CI pipeline.

Within half a day, I had gotten a kubernetes stack running inside of a Layerfile. Staging servers to view websites running inside Kubernetes came in less than a minute. It was clear within the first couple runs that LayerCI was skipping unnecessary steps and reducing our test times.

— Julian Mazzitelli, CIO at

My team is an early LayerCI user. The stack is fast, the syntax familiar, and the automated dev environments make sharing work within and outside the team a snap. Lyn and Colin give a hoot about the product and their users alike, and it shows.

— Aidan Nulman, Director of Consumer Technology at

Atmos used to have several bugs leak into production because we couldn't properly or efficiently deploy our code to a staging environment. Changes required a manual deploy, slowing down our development and QA speed. Layer made it simple: commit your changes, check if it works in Layer, then keep going.

— Matthew Rastovac, Head of Engineering at

LayerCI was easy and fast to integrate and setup as part of our CI pipeline. The command structure was also easy to understand and very easily integrated with the scripts we previously using to manually deploy code.

— Umar Azhar, CTO at

If your stack runs on Linux, we support it.

Get speed without unnecessary complexity

LayerCI's configuration is an extension of Dockerfiles. Developers can write entire CI pipelines in the familiar Dockerfile syntax, except they get the power of a fully-featured testing VM.

A web-based terminal for every CI pipeline

Once you've authorized LayerCI to talk to your repository, we'll run your CI script for every change. After they're done, we'll keep them around for a week and let you debug directly in the test runner with a web terminal.

Evaluate website changes faster than ever

Our industry-leading Continuous Staging feature allows anyone on your team to review changes to your website without needing a staging server. We support most back-ends, including those written in Ruby, Java, Node.js, Python, and Go.

CI/CD should be boring.

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