Application Environment¶

Overview¶

flowchart TD
    subgraph App["<div style='margin-top:10px; white-space: nowrap;'>App</div>"]
        subgraph group[ ]
            Dev["Dev instance"]
            Feature["Feature instance"]
            Prod["Production Instance"]
        end
        style group fill:none,stroke:none,stroke-width:0px          
    end

    EnvA["Production (type: prod)"]
    EnvB["Dev (type: dev)"]

    Prod --> EnvA
    Dev --> EnvB
    Feature --> EnvB

An Environment (Env) is an organization-level object that defines deployment context.

App instances, databases, and some other resources are assigned to an Env. The Env itself is not the deployment. It is the label and matching context around that deployment.

Each Env has:

a name and title
a type chosen from a fixed enum
organization-level reuse across apps and other resources

Multiple Envs can share the same type. For example, Production EU and Production US can both use the prod type.

This type matters because stack- and service-level configuration can target an environment type, not only a single named Env.

Organizations start with default Envs for the standard types, and you can create additional named Envs as needed.

Environment types¶

The current environment type enum is:

prod
staging
test
dev
feature