Best Practices

Environments

• Development

  • Open to all contributors without restriction

• Test (Quality Control)

  • Mimics production, used for manual quality control before release

  • Restricted to UI access for most users

• Production

  • Tightly restricted access

  • Runs in a separate Digital Ocean account

Workflows

Services

• Automatic Test, Release, Deploy to Dev k8s

  • On push/merge to master

• Automatic Test

  • On PR created/updated

• Manual Deploy to Test k8s

• Manual Deploy to Production k8s

• Manual Deploy to Dev k8s

Web Applications

• Automatic Test, Release, Deploy to Dev CDN

• Automatic Test

  • On PR created/updated

• Manual Deploy to Test CDN

• Manual Deploy to Production CDN

• Manual Deploy to Dev CDN

IaC

• Separation of environments?

• Seams between tfstate files?

• Protection of resources?

• Access?

Personal Development Environments