Deploying to a Staging Environment
Set up a workflow to automatically deploy your application to a staging environment for pre-production testing.
What is a Staging Environment?
Imagine you've built a new feature for your app. Before showing it to everyone (production), you want to test it in a safe, realistic setting. That's where a staging environment comes in!
A staging environment is a copy of your production environment. It's used for final testing before a release, allowing you to catch issues and ensure quality without affecting live users.
Staging vs. Production
While staging mirrors production, their purposes differ:
- Staging: For quality assurance (QA), user acceptance testing (UAT), and final checks. Only a limited audience (testers, stakeholders) interacts with it.
- Production: The live environment used by all your end-users. Any issues here directly impact your customers.
Deploying to staging first is a critical step to minimize risks in production.
All lessons in this course
- Introduction to Continuous Deployment
- Deploying to a Staging Environment
- Environment Variables and Secrets
- Deploying to Production with Approval Gates