> Unless you are trying to say that the environment is already running when the merge to master pipeline succeeds. I read this as implying that there would be

> Unless you are trying to say that the environment is already running when the merge to master pipeline succeeds. I read this as implying that there would be a "warm pool" of environments ready to go at any given time. This is an approach I've used in the past when environment construction was expensive (e.g. Windows servers), but there are certainly tradeoffs.