Environment Parity

Kind: principle

Layer: Resource Core

Record: architecture:environment-parity

Severity: recommended

Scope: dev, test, staging, production

Canonical: Ontology

A design rule that development, test, staging and production run the same build, differing only in configuration.

Listed in Architecture principles, after Platform Independence and before Containerization.

Requires

• Configuration Externalization
• Infrastructure as Code

Reinforces

• Reproducibility

Enables

• Reliable Deployment

Conflicts with

• Snowflake Environments

In tension with

• Cost

Tensions

• Environment Parity / Cost

Violated by

• Snowflake Environments

Refactored by

• Containerization
• Externalize Configuration
• Infrastructure as Code

Severity

• recommended

Category

• Portability / Infrastructure / Deployment

Enforced by

• rules/eslint/no-runtime-absent-member.eslint.rule.ts

Reinforced by

• Immutable Infrastructure

Linked from

• The deploy is a file operation
• Computation and resource
• Correctness / Determinism / Verification
• Portability / Infrastructure / Deployment
• Control / Coordination / Centralization
• Core Vocabulary
• Portability / Infrastructure / Deployment
• Severity levels
• The resolutions