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DOP 137: Shifting Infrastructure Management Left

DevOps Paradox

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Staging Is Not Going to Be Merged to the Main Line

I think where people can get messed up is when they use five different branches within a repository to represent each of the environments. Staging is not going to ever be mergeable to production precisely because of the differences that we mentioned before. And if branches are not mergeable to the main line, my head starts hurting and I start getting complications in understanding how all that works. For no obvious reason, it's so much easier to say, hey, in this repo, you create pull requests. In this repo, I do not care. If your options are directories in a single repo or branches, directories anytime of the day.

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