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author: "Roy Osherove"
description: "Environments: Ephemeral environments and the cost of static ones. Articles by Roy Osherove on Pipeline Driven."
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# Environments line

Environments: Ephemeral environments and the cost of static ones. Articles by Roy Osherove on Pipeline Driven.

HTML: https://pipelinedriven.org/article/line/env · 3 linked entries (each is plain Markdown) · Site index: [llms.txt](https://pipelinedriven.org/llms.txt)

- [Parallel Firehose](https://pipelinedriven.org/article/2014/9/22/parallel-firehose.md) (2014-09-22): Pattern: Parallel Firehose Other Names: Build Environment Per Stakeholder Symptoms: You can't deploy a new version of the application to your test or…
- [The four biggest issues with having static environments](https://pipelinedriven.org/article/the-four-biggest-issues-with-having-static-environments.md) (2017-03-30): An environment is a set of one or more servers, configured to host the application we are developing, and with the application already installed on them,…
- [Ephemeral Environments for DevOps: Why, What and How?](https://pipelinedriven.org/article/ephemeral-environment-why-what-how-and-where.md) (2017-03-30): In the previous post I discussed the issues with having static environments . In this post I cover one of the solutions for those issues: Ephemeral…


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## About the author

**Roy Osherove**: Senior Solutions Architect at AWS working on AI for production and AI-driven development; author of The Art of Unit Testing and Elastic Leadership, with about 20 years of consulting and training on unit testing, TDD, team leadership and continuous delivery.

### Sites

- [RobotPaper](https://robotpaper.ai/): This blog: AI patterns and anti-patterns, AI and coding agents, and engineering leadership.
- [osherove.com](https://osherove.com): Roy's personal site. Author of The Art of Unit Testing and Elastic Leadership; consulting and training on unit testing, TDD, team leadership and continuous delivery, plus about 20 years of blog posts.
- [The Art of Unit Testing](https://www.artofunittesting.com): The Art of Unit Testing, 3rd Edition (Manning): readable, maintainable, trustworthy unit tests, plus TDD workshops in C#, JavaScript, Java and Kotlin.
- [5whys.com](https://www.5whys.com): Roy's writing on software team leadership: self-organizing teams, surviving chaos, learning mode and the Elastic Leadership model.
- [Pipeline Driven](https://pipelinedriven.org): Continuous delivery and DevOps practices: build patterns, pipeline-friendly testing, DevOps metrics and enterprise DevOps.
- [Elastic Leadership](https://www.elasticleadership.com): Elastic Leadership, Roy's framework for software team leaders (survival, learning and self-organizing modes).

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### License

Licensed under CC BY 4.0 — reuse, quote and adapt with attribution (Roy Osherove, link to the original page). License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/