Here are some of the weaknesses in our current approach:
- Lack of consistency: Most enterprise-level applications are developed by a team. It is likely that each team member will use a different operating system, or otherwise configure their machine differently from others. This means that the environment of each team members’ local machine will be different from each other, and by extension, from the production servers'. Therefore, even if all our tests pass locally, it does not guarantee that it will pass on production.
- Lack of independence: When a few services depend on a shared library, they must all use the same version of the library.
- Time-consuming and error-prone: Every time we want a new environment (staging/production) or the same environment in multiple locations, we need to manually deploy a new VPS instance and repeat the...
