Diverse Deployment Environments Create Configuration and Management Sprawl

As an application's complexity increases, it needs more separate app development, staging, test, and production environments. Managing multiple environments is complex and could quickly go out of control. It requires experienced DevOps experts to define the series of predetermined steps to speed up deployment by streamlining development and testing.

Monitoring applications deployed across multiple environments can be challenging, as it can be difficult to ensure consistency across different environments.

ensuring a smooth transition from development to production requires adherence to best practices, such as maintaining parity between development and production environments. The necessity for proper server management can complicate the deployment process, especially for teams lacking experience in cloud infrastructure.

Today, CIOs and CTOs can pick from a wide variety of application deployment modalities...It's also a curse because diversity leads to complexity and sprawl. For example, managing applications running in AWS requires different configurations, tools, and tribal knowledge than managing applications in Azure Cloud.