Ephemeral environments are getting popular among companies that need to scale their business efficiently. Traditionally, the deployment environments usually included development, QA, staging, UAT, and production. However, the bottlenecks with shared QA and staging environments have hindered the efficient workflow of IT teams. The first issue you will face is environment drift because it is a shared environment, and you cannot afford a separate static environment for each developer. Similarly, you cannot take valuable feedback from the product manager, QA engineer, or developers unless you merge the code and deploy it on a shared staging/QA environment. Environment setup also becomes challenging now that most applications are containerized and consist of docker, Kubernetes, and microservices.

This article will discuss Ephemeral Environments and how they solve the problems mentioned above with a simple but powerful solution. We will describe its benefits to organizations and how the modern workflow based on ephemeral environments differs from the traditional workflow. Ultimately, we will discuss how to get started with ephemeral environments.