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I like the idea of ephemeral / preview environments, but I'm a bit fuzzy on the details. For a microservice application, would you have to spin up dedicated, ep
by lordleft 4y ago
I like the idea of ephemeral / preview environments, but I'm a bit fuzzy on the details. For a microservice application, would you have to spin up dedicated, ephemeral instances of all the components of your app? Isn't that inherently cost-prohibitive? Would some components persist, like in traditional staging environments? I'd love to see some case studies of this concept in action.
- hangonhn 4y agoWe certainly do at my company. Most microservices are rather small and easy to spin up on smaller AWS instances, especially if they're Docker based. Our AWS bill isn't that high and our preview environments don't contribute much to our costs at all. We do have a process that nags developers if their environment has been up for a while and make them confirm they still need it.