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Ephemeral Environments.

Updated Apr 28, 2026

Short answer

Dynamic, temporary testing environments created automatically for a specific Pull Request and destroyed when the PR is closed.

Deep explanation

This eliminates the bottleneck of shared staging environments. Using a combination of CI/CD, Terraform, and Kustomize, a complete clone of production (with sanitized data or mock databases) is spun up. The URL is commented back to the GitHub PR for product managers to test.

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