Ephemeral Environments
On-Demand Deployment Infrastructure
The Challenge
A Series C startup struggled with environment drift and deployment bottlenecks. Developers could only test one feature at a time, constantly stepping on each other's deployments and blocking releases.
The Solution
Designed and implemented an ephemeral environment system using GitHub Actions and AWS ECS/Fargate. Each PR automatically spins up an isolated environment tagged with its Jira ticket number, enabling parallel development and testing.
Results
Technical Highlights
- ✓ GitHub Actions for CI/CD orchestration
- ✓ AWS ECS/Fargate for containerized deployments
- ✓ CloudFormation stacks tagged with Jira tickets
- ✓ ECR for container image management