Developing Applications and Automating Workflows Using Cisco Platforms (DEVASC) — Question 477

While delivering a product, a team spends a lot of time installing dependencies to maintain the development and test environments. Both environments must be identical. Which action improves the delivery?

Answer options

• A. Use an Ansible playbook to install the dependencies.
• B. Pack everything into the released product.
• C. Use containers to keep the environment consistent.
• D. Pre-install the product into a virtual machine.

Correct answer: C

Explanation

Using containers allows for consistent environments across development and testing, ensuring that the application behaves the same way regardless of where it is deployed. Ansible playbooks and pre-installation in virtual machines can streamline setup but do not guarantee environmental consistency like containers do. Packing everything into the released product may lead to bloating and does not address environmental discrepancies.