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Alex Spinov
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Coherence Has a Free API You've Never Heard Of

#coherence #devops #infrastructure #automation

Coherence is a full-stack cloud automation platform that creates production-ready infrastructure from your code. It analyzes your codebase and automatically generates Terraform, Docker, and CI/CD pipelines.

What Makes Coherence Different?

  • Code-to-infrastructure — reads your code, generates infra
  • Preview environments — automatic per-PR preview deployments
  • Managed CI/CD — no GitHub Actions or Jenkins needed
  • Multi-cloud — AWS and GCP support

The Hidden API: Automatic Infrastructure

Coherence reads your code and creates infrastructure automatically:

# coherence.yml — that's all you need
services:
  backend:
    type: backend
    platform: python
    system:
      health_check: /api/health
    dev:
      command: python manage.py runserver
    resources:
      cpu: 0.5
      memory: 512Mi

  frontend:
    type: frontend
    platform: nodejs
    build:
      command: npm run build
    url_path: /

  worker:
    type: worker
    platform: python
    command: celery -A myapp worker

  db:
    type: database
    engine: postgres
    version: "15"

  cache:
    type: cache  
    engine: redis
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From this single file, Coherence generates:

  • Terraform for all cloud resources
  • Docker images for each service
  • CI/CD pipeline
  • Preview environments for every PR
  • SSL certificates
  • Environment variables injection

Preview Environments API 

# Every PR automatically gets a preview environment
# PR #42 → https://pr-42.preview.yourapp.com

# Coherence CLI
coherence env list
coherence env deploy --branch feature/new-api
coherence env destroy --branch feature/old-feature
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Environment Variables API 

coherence config set DATABASE_URL=postgres://...
coherence config set REDIS_URL=redis://...
coherence config set --service backend SECRET_KEY=xxx
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Quick Start 

# Sign up at withcoherence.com
# Connect GitHub repo
# Add coherence.yml
# Push → auto-deploy
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Why Teams Switch to Coherence

A CTO shared: "Our DevOps engineer spent 3 months building CI/CD with Terraform and GitHub Actions. Coherence replaced all of it in 2 hours. And we got preview environments for free — something we never had before."

Need DevOps automation or custom tools? Email spinov001@gmail.com or check my solutions.

How do you manage infrastructure? Have you tried infrastructure-from-code?

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