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At Defang, we’re enabling developers go from idea to code to deployment 10x faster. We’re thrilled to announce that Defang V1 is officially launching during our action-packed Launch Week, running from December 4–10, 2024! This marks a major milestone as we officially release the tools and features developers have been waiting for.

What’s New in Defang CLI V1?​

Defang is a powerful tool that lets you easily develop, deploy, and debug production-ready cloud applications. With Defang V1, we continue to deliver on our vision to make cloud development effortlessly simple and portable, with the ability to develop once and deploy anywhere. Here’s what’s included in this milestone release:

• Production-Ready Support for AWS

Seamlessly deploy and scale with confidence on AWS. Defang is now WAFR-compliant, assuring that your deployments conform to all the best-practices for AWS deployments. Defang is now officially part of the AWS Partner Network.

• New - Google Cloud Platform (GCP) in Preview

This week, we are excited to unveil support for deployments to GCP, in Preview. Start building and exploring and give us feedback as we work to enhance the experience further and move towards production support. Defang is also now officially part of the Google Cloud Partner Advantage program.

• Support for DigitalOcean in Preview

Developers using DigitalOcean can explore our Preview features, with further enhancements and production support coming soon.

Defang Product Tiers and Introductory Pricing 🛠️

As we move into V1, we are also rolling out our differentiated product tiers, along with our special introductory pricing. Fear not, we will always have a free tier for hobbyists - conveniently called the Hobby tier. We now also provide Personal, Pro, and Enterprise tiers for customers with more advanced requirements. Check out what is included in each here. And as always, the Defang CLI is and remains open-source.

Launch Week Activities​

We’ve lined up an exciting week of activities to showcase the power of Defang and bring together our growing community:

• December 4: Vancouver CDW x AWS re:Invent Watch Party

Join us at the Vancouver CDW x AWS re:Invent Watch Party, where we will have a booth showcasing Defang’s capabilities and AWS integration. Stop by to learn more about Defang and see a live demo from the Defang dev team.

• December 5–6: GFSA DemoDay and Git Push to 2025: Devs Social Party

Hear directly from Defang’s co-founder and CTO, Lio Lunesu, as we unveil Defang’s support for GCP at the Google for Startups Accelerator (GFSA) DemoDay event in Toronto. This event will also be live-streamed here.

Additionally, join us on December 5th for the final meetup of the year for Vancouver’s developer groups, hosted by VanJS in collaboration with other local dev communities.

• December 6 & 7: MLH Global Hack Week (GHW)

Join us during MLH Global Hack Week for hands-on workshops and learn how to build production-ready cloud applications in minutes with Defang.

• December 7: Cloud Chat

An IRL event with our team to explore V1 features in depth, answer your questions, and share insights from our journey. Register here to join.

• December 10: Product Hunt Launch

Be part of our Product Hunt debut and show your support as we reach the broader tech community.

Join the Celebration 🎉​

This launch week is not just about us. It is about you, our community. Here is how you can get involved:

1. Explore the Platform: Sign up at Defang.io and dive into V1.

2. Attend Events: Mark your calendar for our scheduled activities.

3. Spread the Word: Follow us on LinkedIn and X, share your experiences, and let others know why you love Defang.

We’re excited to celebrate this milestone with all of you. Stay tuned for more updates, and let’s make Launch Week unforgettable!

Hi everyone,

We are a little late getting our monthly update out this time, but we did ship a number of important updates in October that we would like to inform you about. And more is coming… stay tuned for that!

1. New CLI version 0.6.5: this was a big release with a number of improvements and bug fixes. You can find details in the release notes here, but to highlight a few:

   • defang --provider aws shows improved error message if unauthenticated
   • Added --wait and --wait-timeout flags
   • Improved generate menu: all samples shown (previously these were restricted by language), and we moved the "Generate with AI" option to now be shown in the search filter.

2. AI Debug for BYOC: AI Debug feature is incredibly useful in helping users find and fix issues when something goes wrong. Our initial version only worked on Playground, but now we have extended this to BYOC environments. We hope this makes it even easier for you to deploy your apps to AWS, DigitalOcean, etc.

3. A range of other improvements, including

   • Network aliases support
   • GDPR Delete Me: You can now delete your Defang account from the Defang Portal
   • 30min time-out for the deployments to avoid runaway tasks in your account
   • Allow Postgres major version upgrade, e.g. changing the image frompostgres:14 to postgres:16 in your Compose file (Currently, we only support this in --mode development, we will explore ways to support in other modes in the future.)
   • More feedback logs when containers exit, e.g. failing health-checks
   • Fixes for multiple BYOD domains in a single account

Events and Adoption​

In October, the Defang team was actively involved in a range of exciting events. We participated in MLH Cloud Week, StormHacks, and hosted a DevTools Vancouver meetup, bringing together local DevTool founders, engineers, and enthusiasts. It was inspiring to see Defang in action, helping these hackers build their amazing projects.

When we shipped our Public Beta earlier in 2024, we had a goal to reach 1000 users by end of year. We are pleased to announce that we have already reached this milestone a couple of months in advance! We are excited to see the momentum behind the product and how our users are using Defang for developing and deploying a variety of different applications. Thank you for your support!

The Road Ahead​

The team is now heads-down dotting the i’s and crossing the t’s so we can release Defang V1 before end of year. This will enable customers to use Defang for production workloads. We look forward to sharing more in our next monthly update.

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Defang Coffee Chat ☕​

If you're excited about what's coming next and want to hear more about our vision for the future, join us for our Coffee Chat on November 27th 2024. We'll be sharing more about our roadmap and what we're working on next.

Register here!

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As always, we appreciate your feedback and are committed to making Defang the easiest way to develop, deploy, and debug your cloud applications. Go build something awesome! 🚀

Announcing the Defang Public Beta

A radically simpler way for developers to create, deploy, and manage cloud applications.

Ever since we shipped our Private Beta in the summer of 2023, we have been working with early adopters and listening to their feedback. While these early customers loved the ease with which they could create, deploy, and manage a cloud application, they had one big request - to deploy their applications to their own cloud (e.g. AWS) account. This was important to them for a number of reasons - to leverage their cloud credits, to enforce their IAM roles and security settings, to integrate new application components with their existing deployments, and more.

And so, today with our Public Beta, we are addressing this request. With today’s release of Defang BYOC (Bring-your-own-Cloud), you can now enjoy all the benefits of Defang and deploy applications to your own AWS account! Our Private Beta experience is still available as Defang Playground for you to quickly and easily prototype applications and deploy them to our hosted environment.

You can learn more about Defang here. Also check out our tutorials, samples, and FAQ to know more.

Try the Public Beta!

To try the Public Beta, please go to defang.io and click on Download to download the CLI and get started. We would love to have you kick the tires and give us your feedback! Once you sign up you’ll receive an invitation to our Slack support channel in email. You are also welcome to file GitHub issues here.

Stay Tuned for More

While the Public Beta is an important step forward, we have already heard requests for additional features - from support for additional cloud platforms such as Azure and GCP, to the ability to easily write cloud-agnostic applications while leveraging the best of each cloud platform. We are already working on these items and shall have more to share in the coming months - stay tuned!