# Snowflake Environments

> Environments each configured by hand into unique, unreproducible states, so what works in one fails in another.

Record: `lexicon:snowflake-environments`
Kind: anti-pattern
Layer: [Resource Core](https://banes-lab.com/records/layer/resource-core.md)
Canonical: https://banes-lab.com/ontology/lexicon#lexicon-snowflake-environments

Listed in [Lexicon terms](https://banes-lab.com/api/records/lexicon.md), after [Reliable Deployment](https://banes-lab.com/records/lexicon/reliable-deployment.md) and before [Externalized Config](https://banes-lab.com/records/lexicon/externalized-config.md).

## Category

- [Portability / Infrastructure / Deployment](https://banes-lab.com/records/lexicon-category/portability-infrastructure-deployment.md)

## Negated by

- [Environment Parity](https://banes-lab.com/records/architecture/environment-parity.md)

## Linked from

- [Portability / Infrastructure / Deployment](https://banes-lab.com/ontology/principles/architecture-category-portability-infrastructure-deployment.md)