Most companies have a single or too few “staging” environments. Therefore, engineers scramble to see who will use staging or end up merging changes without ever testing them in a production-like environment. Consequently, bugs slip, and there’s a lot of rework to rollback changes and apply fixes after broken code has been merged.Additionally, when systems are too big or too difficult to run locally, developers point their local applications to the only “staging” environment that exists. Sharing this single “staging” environment causes all sorts of weird behaviour because developers’ changes will interfere with one another. Furthermore, when “staging” is broken, no one can write any code.
Layerform solves these problems by allowing each engineer to spin up their own “staging”. That way, engineers have a production-like environment in which they can test changes before merging any code.Engineers can also point their local applications to their own development infrastructure when writing code. That way, they won’t interfere with one another’s changes and won’t be blocked if “staging” stops working.
Layers make it easy for engineers to create their own development environments while sharing core-pieces of infrastructure.When using Layerform, engineers can encapsulate different types of development environments into layers, and each engineer can spin up the layers they need for developing and testing their applications.Additionally, Layerform helps you:
Understand the costs of each layer
Use terraform to spin-up development environments instead of using error-prone in-house solutions
Automatically turn-off environments after business hours or when they become inactive