In my last job, just to run the software on my local machine, I had to launch 6 different microservices running in a containerized, Linux virtualized environment on Windows and had to launch them in a particular order and had to keep each one in a separate console for debugging purposes. It took about 20 minutes to launch the software to be able to test it locally. The launch couldn't be automated easily because each service was using a mix of containers and plain Node.js servers with different versions and it was Windows so I would probably have to write some unfamiliar code for Windows to automate opening all the necessary git bash tabs...
The services usually persisted except for automatic updates so I only had to restart all the services a few times per week so it didn't make sense to invest time to automate.
The services usually persisted except for automatic updates so I only had to restart all the services a few times per week so it didn't make sense to invest time to automate.