In Multi-Experience Operations, you can associate environments to sites. By doing so, you can create site instances. This ensures that the system creates databases and associates domains to sites. 

Accessing environments¶

After you have a codebase provisioned by Acquia, you can contact Acquia Support to create environments from that codebase. After an environment is created, you can associate it with sites to create site instances. You can view your environment details through the Cloud Platform user interface. The number of environments that you can get created from a codebase is based on your Multi-Experience Operations entitlement.

To access an environment:

1. Sign in to the Cloud Platform user interface.
2. Go to Codebases.
   The system displays all available codebases along with the number of sites and environments associated with the codebases.

3. Select the number in the Environment column.

   

   This displays the Environments page and lists all the environments created from the codebase.

   

You can view the following information about your environment:

• Name of the environment
• Branch associated with the environment

Environment Overview page¶

The Environment Overview page has the following fields and action items:

Switching code¶

With Multi-Experience Operations, you can deploy your code from a specific branch or tag to one or more environments. These environments can belong to one or more application. For example, you can deploy the same codebase to the following:

• Dev environment in application A
• Stage and production environments in application B

This assumes that you have access to these applications that use the same codebase.

To deploy code in bulk:

1. Sign in to the Cloud Platform user interface.
2. Go to Codebases.
   The system displays all available codebases along with the number of sites and environments associated with the codebases.
3. Select the number in the Environment column.
4. Select a specific environment to access the Environment Overview page.
5. Click Switch Code.
6. Select a new tag or branch that you want to push to the environments in the applications.
7. Click Switch.
    

Associating an environment with sites¶

To associate an environment with sites:

1. Sign in to the Cloud Platform user interface.
2. Go to Codebases.
   The system displays all available codebases along with the number of sites and environments associated with the codebases.
3. Select the number in the Environment column.
4. Select a specific environment to access the Environment Overview page.
5. In the Associated sites section, click Associate site.
6. Select one or more sites.
7. Click Associate sites.

Disassociating an environment from sites¶

To dissociate an environment from sites:

1. Sign in to the Cloud Platform user interface.
2. Go to Codebases.
   The system displays all available codebases along with the number of sites and environments associated with the codebases.
3. Select the number in the Environment column.
4. Select a specific environment to access the Environment Overview page.
5. In the Associated sites section, locate a specific site and click Actions > Dissociate from environment.