It is the case in my company. Production and staging is bunch of docker-composes scattered around several servers. We had to create another staging environment, I think it took several days to configure it. People run services locally, but not entire stack, that takes too much effort.

Right now I’m trying to understand and deploy Kubernetes. Scalability and availability is good, but one of the reasons that I want to make it possible to roll out entire stack locally.

Basically it’s lack of devops. We don’t have separate role and developers do the minimal job of keeping production running well enough, they got other tasks to do. There should be someone working on improving those things full time.