Instead of having one or 2 machines that simulate a much smaller production environment by connecting out to digital ocean or aws you can spin up a full sized c

Instead of having one or 2 machines that simulate a much smaller production environment by connecting out to digital ocean or aws you can spin up a full sized copy of your production infrastructure. This is nice as it allows you to do performance testing as well as stability and provisioning tests and your normal unit\functional\whatever tests. While you wouldn't want to do it for every commit (unless you had your own infrastructure with space(though you could still do a partial test and profile)) it would be nice to test every merge to master.