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by OriPekelman 2669 days ago
As it is relevant .. plugging-in my own startup, platform.sh We do this with another twist ... our per-branch ephemeral staging clusters contain a full snapshot of production data. We believe strongly in immutability so what you are running in production is precisely what you tested in QA... And because production cloning relies on copy-on-write primitive it is basically immediate (think more in the dozens of seconds rather than multiple of minutes).
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It looks like I need to host my prod environment completely on your tool to make use of the staging feature. I will look more into this though, thanks for sharing. One difference is that in Dockup, we can boot up databases instantly with obfuscated prod like data and we do this because Dockup deployments are accessible by the entire team.