You may want more environments than the development, staging, and production environments that you receive initially. For example, you may want additional environments to support:

• Testing integration with other systems
• Providing separate environments for different developers or development teams, where your developers want to work on the infrastructure instead of locally
• Performing load testing on a copy of your production infrastructure
  This feature is unavailable in Cloud Next environments.

Aliases for additional environments¶

By default, Cloud Platform applications have three environments with the aliases dev, test, and prod. If you have a Cloud Platform Enterprise application with more than three environments and you must find what your environment names and aliases are, you can do one of the following:

• Look at the /mnt/drush/<app>/ folder on your infrastructure. Files in that folder list the aliases for the environments. For more information, see Using Drush aliases.

• Use the GET /sites/:site/envs Cloud API command. For example:

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  curl -s -u user:pass https://cloudapi.acquia.com/v1/sites/mysite/envs.json

Listing available environments¶

For information on the available environments:

• Use the Cloud Platform user interface. For more information, see Working with environments.
• Use acli. For more information, see Acquia CLI commands.