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Pini Shah

05/01/2023, 8:22 PM
Hello Peeps! Quick question about ephemeral environments. Looking for some success stories in creating such envs for testing/pre-prod purposes. Thoughts on any tools such as releaseHub etc. tech stack -> python, javascript, appEngine. We don't use K8s for deployment yet
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Vivek Dwivedi

05/03/2023, 10:46 AM
If you are thinking of using these environments for saving some money, I have seen quite a few success stories here. Although a lot of people suggest using temporary environments for branch previews, this almost never works out in a complex system. Instead if you use one stable environment for qa/pre-prod and schedule it with some availability and scaling rules, that works out quite well.
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Johannes Würbach

05/03/2023, 11:52 AM
We use preview environments successfully. I guess it mostly depends on what you are planning to test and how your system is structured. Can you already create a new environments today with relative ease?
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Pini Shah

05/07/2023, 8:36 PM
Thank you for the out reach, we are still in planning phase. Right now we use codespaces to create a "preview env", but codespaces has some shortcomings and we would rather work with other tools.
any suggestions on tools that you use to create such "ephemeral envs"?
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Johannes Würbach

05/15/2023, 6:57 PM
Sorry for the late replay, I’m working at Humanitec, so we use Humanitec for that, but thinks like argocd likely also work.