Beyond Review Apps: Orchestrating Full-Stack Ephemeral Environments...
summary
SeatGeek builds Ephie, an Argo CD–driven system that dynamically creates Argo CD Applications via a custom Kubernetes operator, deploys services into ephemeral namespaces, injects dynamic env vars, and provisions isolated Postgres and RabbitMQ instances when requested. Deploys use a kustomize overlay and rely on the cluster service mesh for routing. Average deploy time is ~3 minutes, adoption is ~90% monthly active engineers and ~200 environments/week, and automatic cleanup ties lifetimes to merge requests — the system scales to thousands and materially reduces staging contention.
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chapters (5)
- 0:00Introduction
- 1:03Shared staging problems
- 9:31FE with Argo CD and CNCF tools
- 19:03Developer experience with FE
- 23:15FE adoption at SeatGeek
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