Why Standardized Dev Envs Still Derail CI/CD Pipelines
Standardizing dev environments in containers or Nix reduces onboarding friction, but the underlying host – CPU, filesystem, networking, and secret management – still injects variability that breaks CI configurations and production parity. The article shows how mount handling, case‑sensitivity, and resource differences cause builds to fail despite identical container definitions, forcing teams to address more than just the container.