Developers and IT teams are opposing forces. Developers want to move fast, and they’re rewarded for doing that, along with being creative; whereas IT departments are rewarded for predictability and consistency.

Environment-as-a-service solves this, according to Matt Carter (pictured, right), chief marketing officer of Release Technologies Inc., which specializes in rapid spin-ups of developer environments. The environments-on-demand concept “allows you to let both teams do what they care about and not create a friction there. The artifact that they’re creating is something that the IT team understands and works within their processes,” he said.

Carter and Tommy McClung (pictured), co-founder and chief executive officer of Release Technologies, spoke with theCUBE industry analysts John Furrier and Lisa Martin at the recent KubeCon + CloudNativeCon NA 2022, during an exclusive broadcast on theCUBE, SiliconANGLE Media’s livestreaming studio. They discussed their tool for creating developer environments. (* Disclosure below.)

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“If I’m a developer, and I’m building a feature … for a specific customer of mine, I can build it and preview it with the customer before it actually goes into production,” McClung explained of one of the principal benefits of his developer environment.

“It’s more valuable to the company to build features; it’s more exciting for a developer to build features,” Carter added. “The customers are excited because they get to move onto higher value activities with their time.”

In other words, no one is spending wasted time building out systems. Other advantages of Release Environments include that the developers can isolate their code.

“They can develop knowing they’re not stepping on other developers’ toes,” McClung said.

Testing quickly against a high-fidelity version, too, becomes possible. “Increased developer productivity, developer happiness is a big one,” McClung added. “Keeping developers in flow so that they’re focused on the job and not being distracted.”

Here’s the complete video interview, part of SiliconANGLE’s and theCUBE’s coverage of the KubeCon + CloudNativeCon NA 2022 event:

(* Disclosure: This is an unsponsored editorial segment. However, theCUBE is a paid media partner for KubeCon + CloudNativeCon NA 2022. Sponsors of theCUBE’s event coverage have no editorial control over content on theCUBE or SiliconANGLE.)

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