[curun1r]

We do roughly the same thing, but with Docker and Fig. We're already using Docker to package our services for deployment, so using Fig to spin up a full environment is pretty painless. And Fig also makes it simple to spin up environments for running integration tests as part of CI to ensure that the Docker containers being deployed and used by developers are always in a working state.

[lobster_johnson]

We are indeed planning to migrate to a Docker-based deployment system. I have looked briefly at Docker Compose (new name of Fig), and also at somewhat bigger orchestration systems like Kubernetes.

One goal is to get rid of Puppet (which is, frankly, a buggy, badly-designed mess) and move to a more dynamic, fluid orchestration system based on discovery and autoscaling.