Static environments like staging, qa and dev are major bottlenecks in microservices architecture which slow down the development process. In this talk, we present a tool we've developed and use at GoodRx that automatically creates ephemeral environments from GitHub pull requests managed directly by a comment block in the pull request. This enables developers to quickly test, share and get feedback on their changes in isolated, disposable environments. We will share our journey in building this tool, discuss its integration with existing workflows and its future.
