Staging

Production

Exact replicas according to git

Of course, production is the one that doesn't work

FUCK I FUCKING HATE IT WHEN THIS HAPPENS SO FUCKING ANNOYING AND FRUSTRATING

Fixes:

1. Never get to the point where you can deploy to production

2. Never be the one having to deploy to production

3. 'Bye guys, I've had enough, I'm gonna be a farmer'

Sounds like you need to request a package comparison between the two environments.

Likely one has been updated and the other has not.

@sariel package comparison? As in dependencies? I'd rather suspect configuration differences

It was environment variables.

why is it always FUCKING environment variables.

i knew it was small and thats why i got so frusterated. the small things are hardest to find.

i'm a 🤡 at the highest level

Prod is inherently divergent because it interacts with the real world. You can virtualize any setup down to the lowest level that you or a cooperative third party owns. You can never virtualize the entire reality of any situation.

@fullstackclown

I dunno how / where you store the env variables...

But from someone who has fallen in that pit too many times: Make sure that env variables can only be changed by few chosen ones and that a release workflow contains an easily accessible snapshot of env variables.

Best diffable.

Bit of extra work, but less playing cluedo - who killed the production... Especially with less players who's first answer is always: i didn't do anything.

Infrastructure as code and only 2 people have ssh keys is the way to go.

@ScriptCoded for me it's almost always a different package version installed.

Config changes are much harder to compare since there's so much installed on servers ootb these days. It does happen though.

I know, I know. Infra as code is really the only way to go now, but its a legacy project on a managed server... i'm getting there okay

🤡

@fullstackclown I'm disappointed that many believe the line about infra as code.

Sure, it's easy, but it's just a solution and not every solution is THE solution.

Sounds like a job for docker.