Product
One platform. Every deployment, every environment.
The Society consolidates your pipeline configuration, environment management, and release monitoring into a single cream-and-burgundy dashboard designed for clarity under pressure.
A deployment platform built around how engineers actually work
The Society's core product is an opinionated deployment platform that sits between your version control system and your production infrastructure. Rather than forcing teams to learn a new paradigm, it meets engineers where they already are: in Git. A single YAML manifest checked into your repository is all that is needed to configure a pipeline, define environment variables per stage, set traffic-shift percentages for canary releases, and specify rollback thresholds. The platform handles the orchestration layer — provisioning ephemeral preview environments, running pre-deploy smoke tests, and streaming structured logs to the dashboard in real time. Teams at The Society typically go from first login to first successful production deploy in under two hours.
Core capabilities
Every feature below ships to all plans — we do not gate functionality that engineering teams need to operate safely.
YAML-driven pipeline config
Define your entire deployment pipeline as code in a single
.society.ymlfile. Version it alongside your application, review it in pull requests, and audit every historical change through the dashboard's config diff viewer.Ephemeral preview environments
Every pull request automatically spins up an isolated preview environment with its own subdomain, seeded database snapshot, and environment-variable set. Environments are torn down automatically when the PR closes.
Canary and blue-green releases
Configure traffic-shift increments as low as 1% and set automatic promotion or rollback rules based on p99 latency and error-rate thresholds. No manual promotion scripts, no 3 a.m. rollbacks.
Secrets and environment parity
The Society's secrets vault encrypts all environment variables at rest using AES-256 and surfaces environment drift warnings when staging and production configs diverge by more than a configurable tolerance.
REST and GraphQL API
Every action in The Society is available via a versioned API. Trigger deploys from Slack bots, pull deployment metrics into your internal dashboards, or embed approval gates into your ticketing system — in under an afternoon.
“The preview environment feature changed how our product team reviews front-end changes. QA now happens on an environment that is identical to production, not a shared staging box everyone has broken at least twice. We shipped our redesign three weeks early because of it.”
Aoife Brennan, CTO, Cork
The Society API: infrastructure you can script
Platform engineers love The Society because nothing is locked behind a GUI. The full REST API is documented with OpenAPI 3.1 and available at api.vividulumen.today. Every endpoint supports token-scoped authentication, rate-limit headers, and structured error responses. A GraphQL gateway is available on all paid plans and exposes a schema covering deployments, environments, secrets (metadata only), pipeline runs, and team membership. Client libraries are available in TypeScript, Python, and Go, and we publish changelogs with a 90-day deprecation policy — so your automation does not break without warning.
Product questions, answered directly
Which version control systems does The Society support?
The Society integrates natively with GitHub, GitLab, and Bitbucket via OAuth. Azure DevOps integration is in closed beta and expected to reach general availability in Q3 2025. Self-hosted GitLab instances are supported from version 16.0 onwards.
Does The Society work with any cloud provider?
Yes. The Society is cloud-agnostic by design. We support AWS (EC2, ECS, Lambda, and EKS), Google Cloud (GKE and Cloud Run), and Azure (AKS and App Service). Bare-metal targets are supported via our SSH agent, which can be installed in under five minutes.
How long does it take to migrate an existing pipeline?
Most teams complete a full pipeline migration in one working day. We provide a CLI tool that ingests your existing GitHub Actions or CircleCI YAML and outputs a .society.yml scaffold. From there, incremental changes are typically needed only for custom pre/post-deploy hooks.
Is there an on-premises or private-cloud deployment option?
The Society Enterprise includes a fully air-gapped on-premises deployment option. You receive a Docker Compose bundle and a Helm chart for Kubernetes. Licence keys are renewed annually and activation does not require an outbound internet connection.