# Speeding Up Data Imports for Deployment Previews with PVC Snapshotting

DevFeed: [Speeding Up Data Imports for Deployment Previews with PVC Snapshotting](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/98-faster-data-imports-in-deployment-previews-23702.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://engineering.theblueground.com/faster-data-imports-in-deployment-previews/>)

Author: Nick Nikitas

Published: 2024-01-23T12:48:14Z

Content type: article

Language: en

Sources: [Blueground Engineering blog](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/blueground-engineering-blog.md>)

Topics: [Deployment](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/deployment.md>), [Kubernetes](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/kubernetes.md>), [Developer experience](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/developer-experience.md>), [pull-requests](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/pull-requests.md>), [data](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/data.md>), [Databases](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/databases.md>), [argo-cd](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/argo-cd.md>), [Amazon Web Services](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/aws.md>)

Tags: [argo-cd](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/argo-cd.md>), [aws](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/aws.md>), [data](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/data.md>), [databases](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/databases.md>), [deployment](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/deployment.md>), [developer-experience](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/developer-experience.md>), [devops](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/devops.md>), [kubernetes](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/kubernetes.md>), [platform](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/platform.md>), [provisioning](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/provisioning.md>), [pull-requests](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/pull-requests.md>)

## AI overview

This article describes a bottleneck in deployment previews caused by importing de-identified production data into ephemeral environments. It introduces PVC snapshotting as the method used to provision previews more promptly and outlines drawbacks of the previous Argo CD- and Kubernetes-based approach, including lengthy waits, limited scalability, and errors.

## Source excerpt

Check out our previous blog post to learn about implementing Deployment Previews, a concept popularized by Netlify and Vercel in Kubernetes. This post will explain our method of provisioning them promptly, rather than keeping our engineers waiting, using PVC snapshotting. This December, we went out and asked our colleagues to