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
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: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.