I've worked at a number of places where we had multiple products with replicated staging/production environments. One approach is to have your environments codi

I've worked at a number of places where we had multiple products with replicated staging/production environments. One approach is to have your environments codified, prod gets built from the same pipeline staging does, and to automate database refreshes from prod > staging so they don't fall behind. It isn't rocket science, but of course it doesn't come at zero cost. Some production environments are pretty hard to replicate too, like anything with third party integrations that don't offer a staging environment of their own. If you're a small shop I can understand it, but bigger companies with infrastructure teams, there's no excuse really, the technologies are all there.