Environment

Environment is a set of resources and configuration for running an application or workload. Environments provide isolated spaces for different stages of development, testing, and production.

For example, a typical development workflow involves multiple environments like development, staging, and production. The development environment contains resources for developers to build and test new features. Staging provides an environment identical to production for final testing before deployment. The production environment runs the live application used by end users.

Environments allow you to keep these stages and their resources separate. You can configure each one differently based on their purpose. Development may allow more access and have lower resource limits for experimentation. Staging mimics production to catch issues before deploying. Production focuses on stability with strict access controls and auto-scaling. Environments make it easier to promote code between stages while preventing issues with one from impacting the others.