What Are Ephemeral Environments? + How to Deploy and Use Them Efficiently

SaaS businesses are popular and on the rise now more than ever. So how do you get an edge over your competition and stand out from the crowd? 

You ensure your customers are getting better services 24/7. The customers depend on you.

SaaS companies constantly make improvements and develop new features (big and small) to enhance user experience and “keep up with the times” for each product. In turn, they’re optimizing their SaaS release management process each time. Or are they? 

While some customers take an amazing online shopping experience for granted, many will leave in a heartbeat if an eCommerce store gets it wrong. 

And there are a lot of things that can go wrong, unfortunately. 

Is keeping your codebase stable a vital thing for you and your team?

What about the possibility of multiple developers working on a particular feature without disturbing that codebase? Is that important to you?

Every other type of environment has been mentioned so far, except for training environments. Yet they are essential for learning about the software you’re working on and coming up with solutions to bugs or other issues.

A lot goes on behind the scenes to successfully release software. Competitive pressures and technological advancements are ever-growing in our day and age. Therefore, release management exists to help organizations with software release complexities.

Your products are unique for you and your end-users, and you want to ensure they’re always top-notch and ready for use. But how do you make your product production-ready? What kind of testing should you conduct to reach that point?

All software engineering groups, across all industries, regardless of size, use release management to make their process smoother. 

Manual testing is time-consuming, and your CI/CD pipeline struggles without speed, but you want to deliver robust and reliable software to your customers. How do you do that? Through test automation. Although it can be pricier initially, it ends up being cost-effective in the end if done right. 

There are different kinds of testing environments as part of the deployment process. But, in this article, we’ll focus on staging environments and their best practices to optimize deployment.