[websitescenes]

Good points. Your description is largely similar to my own experiences. On number #6, do you mean that the code base deviates from what is in production? IMO if staging has deviated from production then your pipeline is broken. There is not a single piece of staging specific code in our app. Whatever works on staging works on production. This is accomplished with ENV variables instead of hard coded environment specific details. We actually push directly from staging into production.

[hluska]

> On number #6, do you mean that the code base deviates from what is in production? IMO if staging has deviated from production then your pipeline is broken.

I'm not the person you're replying to, but in my experience, this only happens if you get 100% buy in to the dev ops approach. If you get less than 100% buy in, you'll often end up with greasy environments with the extreme end being a founder type writing code directly in prod.