Ephemeral Environments using Humanitec

This repository serves as a demonstration of how to use Humanitec to create temporary development environments. With this approach, every time a developer starts working on a new feature or bug fix, they can easily spin up a new development environment that is a carbon copy of the production environment. This helps eliminate problems caused by differences between development and production setups, and allows for faster development cycles.

How it works

• A developer creates a new branch and pull request in their repository
• A Github Action is triggered which creates a new ephemeral environment in Humanitec
• The developer can then make changes to their code and push them to the branch
• The Github Action will automatically build and deploy the new code to the ephemeral environment
• The developer can then test their changes in the ephemeral environment
• Once the developer is satisfied with their changes, they can merge the pull request
• The ephemeral environment is automatically deleted
• The changes are automatically deployed to the production environment

Requirements

• A Humanitec account (sign up for a free trial at https://humanitec.com/)
• A created application in Humanitec

Getting Started

1. Fork this repository
2. Set up a new application in Humanitec
3. Setup the following Gitub Action Secrets:
   1. HUMANITEC_TOKEN - Create a token in Humanitec and add it as a secret in Github
4. Setup the following Github Action Environment Variables:
   1. HUMANITEC_ORG - The name of your Humanitec organization
   2. APP_NAME - The name of the application you created in Humanitec