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Environments

Managing development, staging, and production environments.

Environment Types

Development

For active development and testing:

  • Relaxed security
  • Debug logging
  • Mock integrations
  • Sample data

Staging

Pre-production validation:

  • Production-like configuration
  • Integration testing
  • Performance testing
  • User acceptance testing

Production

Live operational environment:

  • Full security
  • Production logging
  • Real integrations
  • Live data

Environment Isolation

Each environment has:

  • Separate credentials
  • Isolated data
  • Independent configuration
  • Distinct endpoints

Configuration Management

Environment Variables

Environment-specific settings via variables.

Feature Flags

Gradual rollout of features across environments.

Secrets Management

Secure handling of credentials per environment.

Promotion Process

Moving between environments:

  1. Test in development
  2. Validate in staging
  3. Deploy to production
  4. Monitor for issues

Data Considerations

  • Never use production data in development
  • Sanitized datasets for testing
  • Data generation tools available
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