Technical

Answers to technical questions regarding our platform.

How do I handle updates and maintenance?

For team leaders, Technical

Once deployed, you can turn your app on and off whenever you need. If you need to scale up, you can head over to the “Scale” page in your Capsule Details and upgrade your CPU/RAM and Storage at will, with minimal downtime between updates. You can apply updates to your application by committing and pushing […]

What is Code Capsules’ uptime and reliability?

For team leaders, Technical

We provide a 99% uptime guarantee, with a superior support team. We are also available anytime via our public Sack team.

Can I use third-party services and integrations?

For team leaders, Technical

Definitely, a lot of our customers integrate with various third-parties.

How is data storage and persistence handled?

For team leaders, Technical

Your backend/dynamic web apps don’t persist data to disk, unless you’ve bound it to a storage capsule. You can also persist data to any of the database capsules, with easy binding/integration to your backend capsules (mongo, mysql or postgres). You can opt in for database and storage backups on a weekly schedule.

What monitoring and debugging tools are available?

For team leaders, Technical

You can debug your applications by logging to STDOUT in your apps, which will automatically pull through to your capsule details pages log output. You can also monitor CPU, RAM and traffic logs.

What are the security considerations?

For team leaders, Technical

Every Space that you create is a private virtual network in a target cluster in a region somewhere in the world. Your applications are secure in our network and we only access https traffic to your public endpoints, which can also be switched off if you don’t want any ingress into your applications (for example […]

How does scaling work?

For team leaders, Technical

You can navigate to your Capsule details page and press “Scale”. From there, you can update your web application’s RAM, CPU and Scale count (number of instances behind our global load balancer).

How do I deploy my web application to the PaaS?

For team leaders, Technical

After you’ve connected your GitHub account and repository to Code Capsules, all you have to do is create a Team, Space and a Capsule linked to that repository, and you’re good to go.

What are the deployment options?

For team leaders, Technical

We expose a basic GitHub-based CI/CD pipeline. When you press Build & Deploy or commit/push up to your repo, our builders will pull your latest GitHub source code, identify the runtime (unless you’ve specified it in a Procfile) and build a container-based image that will be deployed to a target region/cluster (you specify this when […]

How do I set up my development environment for the PaaS?

For team leaders, Technical

You can use any local development environment to get started. You can code using Notepad if you like. The important dependency currently is a public or private GitHub Repository that is linked to your Code Capsules account. From there, all you need to do is commit and push any coding changes to that repository and […]

What programming languages and frameworks are supported?

Most customers currently deploy the MEAN/MERN/MEVN stack, but we support various others. Frontend Frontend/static web apps: Angular React Vue.js Plain old HTML, CSS and JavaScript Backend Backend/dynamic web apps: Node.js Python DotNetCore GoLang Java Docker for anything else (build from a Dockerfile in your Github repo) Storage You can provision a horizontally scalable storage drive […]