As organizations increasingly adopt cloud-native technologies, ephemeral environments have become critical for testing, development, and continuous integration. These temporary environments provide advantages like increased developer productivity, isolation, and scalability, but they also present challenges.
In this session, we’ll explore the good, the bad, and the ugly of ephemeral environment practices:
- The Good: Enhancing CI/CD pipelines, improving productivity, and providing robust testing environments.
- The Bad: Managing state, ensuring consistency, and handling resource constraints.
- The Ugly: Real-world failures and lessons learned, including using the Argo Pull Request generator and implementing ephemeral environments at scale.
We’ll demonstrate best practices for leveraging Argo CD to manage ephemeral environments, automate creation and teardown, use ApplicationSets and GitOps workflows for consistency, and integrate ephemeral environments into your deployment strategy.
