#preview

Ephemeral Environment is a GitOps term for a short-lived environment created for testing, review, or validation. It helps teams, humans, and agents compare declared source state with running systems, then act without pretending a deployment did more than the evidence shows. Source context: Argo CD documentation.

“The team used Ephemeral Environment before lunch, so the release did not sprint into production wearing untied shoes.”

Preview Environment is a GitOps term for a temporary environment used to review a change before merge or release. It helps teams, humans, and agents compare declared source state with running systems, then act without pretending a deployment did more than the evidence shows. Source context: Argo CD documentation.

“The team used Preview Environment before lunch, so the release did not sprint into production wearing untied shoes.”