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Is it common to have a dev environment on AWS? I just use it for production and maybe staging. Staging is scheduled to run during office hours.
by fareesh 6y ago
Is it common to have a dev environment on AWS? I just use it for production and maybe staging. Staging is scheduled to run during office hours.
- carnitas 6y agoMy company tasked me to mad dash their dev environment to AWS. Why? Because “cloud”, and perceived less risky than moving QA and Prod first.
- vitalysh 6y agoI guess depends on the size of the company. How else would you constantly test integrations between different services? Especially if some services can't be easily ran on the laptop. Also if you add terraform/ansible and all that jazz to the table. Where else? Infra team needs dev/stage as well.
- wuunderbar 6y agoLocalstack can get you pretty far.
- fareesh 6y agoYes but in those cases would you really be looking to be Frugal like this? I figured the underlying assumption is that this is a tip for regular folks
- ldoughty 6y agoOps people need a Dev environment to test, especially for Infrastructure as code. With an increased connectivity between developer code and Infrastructure, I prefer my team finds out everything in a development environment that's exactly like staging and prod. That way deployment to staging is proof of the IAC change. There's less risk. This also lets developers try out new services in the cloud without impacting the staging... (This is on top of a sandbox for research, but integration of research takes time and an environment too)
- mcintyre1994 6y agoIt’s super useful to be able to spin up a dev environment for doing things like experimenting with the performance impact of different configs. It’d be annoying and potentially disruptive to other team members to do that on staging.