Name
Ephemeral Environments: Redefining Pre-Prod
Date & Time
Wednesday, December 13, 2023, 12:30 PM - 1:00 PM
Description
Recent innovations in DevOps have established ephemeral environments as the latest pre-prod best practice. FAANG has been using ephemeral infrastructure for 15 years, however, up until a few years ago, small and medium companies didn’t have the time or resources to implement such a solution.
During this talk, I’ll cover the value that ephemeral environments bring to the SDLC, how in-house solutions are made, and which features they should have at a minimum.
Takeaways:
- Using short-lived environments enables teams to run their entire E2E suite against every PR, increasing development velocity by 50%
- Since ephemeral environments are elastic, they are much more cost-effective than traditional staging environments, so teams are less limited with cloud cost constraints
- Ephemeral environments feature very similar infrastructure, data, and dependencies to prod, so automated tests and UAT will produce realistic results
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