[shamiln]

It’s really not that difficult to automate it over helm or something. All you need is a registry, and most cloud services provide a registry, even GitHub has one.

Routing domains to a container shouldn’t be significantly different to doing it in production.

[tracker1]

For that matter, you generally will have a single app firewall or ingress server that reverse-proxies to your application anyway.

[phendrenad2]

Helm, registry, firewall, ingress, reverse proxy, these are all concepts that whoever sets up this hypothetical staging environment will have to know about, and will also have to be a developer (in order to care). So basically you need a senior dev to either love kubernetes or learn enough of it to get the job done. This is what I mean by "harder".