Do you have a replicate of the production environment codified somehow, like into a VM? It's rarely perfect, but I usually try and develop locally on the same s

Do you have a replicate of the production environment codified somehow, like into a VM? It's rarely perfect, but I usually try and develop locally on the same stack I deploy to which can help with the environment differences. It's also why I think it's smart to rebuild the environment on deploy if it makes sense for your pipeline, so that you wipe any minor differences that have been accruing over time. Working on a long running product, you quickly find yourself with disparities building up, and they're not codified, so they're essentially unknown to the team until they cause an issue.