Ephemeral Environment Practices - The Good, Bad, and Ugly

Learn about ephemeral environments in cloud-native technologies through a 27-minute conference talk from The New York Times engineers. Explore critical aspects of temporary environments including their role in testing, development, and continuous integration. Discover how these environments enhance developer productivity and provide isolation while addressing challenges like state management and resource constraints. Gain insights into real-world implementations using Argo CD, including practical demonstrations of ApplicationSets and GitOps workflows for environment automation. Master techniques for leveraging the Argo Pull Request generator, implementing environments at scale, and integrating them effectively into deployment strategies. Understand both successful practices and potential pitfalls through actual case studies and lessons learned from production environments.