How to Manage Staging Environments to Speed Up Your Deployments By 5x

A staging environment serves as the final testing ground before changes are implemented in a production environment, resembling the production setup to ensure consistency and reliability. However, traditional staging environments are increasingly seen as inadequate for modern Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) practices due to their lack of isolation, inflexibility, and hindrance to team collaboration. To address these limitations, on-demand and preview environments have emerged as agile solutions that can be created and dismantled easily, allowing for isolated testing of features, fostering rapid collaboration, and reducing infrastructure costs. These environments enable developers to test new features without affecting others, incorporate feedback swiftly, and maintain control over expenses by using services like Qovery's Environment as a Service (EaaS), which enhances team velocity and shortens time-to-market by providing dynamic, full-fledged environments on a user's AWS account.