The Environments page for an application displays each of the application’s environments. For each environment, it displays controls and information about the environment’s code, databases, and files, as displayed in the following screenshot:
Cloud Platform uses separate environments in order to help you maintain a clear and orderly workflow as you develop, test, and publish your applications. An application is deployed on each of its environments, but each environment may be in a different state, with its own database and possibly a different code branch or tag deployed. Each environment has a URL at which its application can be viewed, but only the Production environment’s URL is designed to be visible to the application’s users (website visitors).
How many environments your application has depends on the level of your Acquia subscription.
Environment | Cloud Platform Enterprise | Cloud Platform Professional |
---|---|---|
Development (Dev) | ✓ | ✓ |
Staging (Stage) | ✓ | ✓ |
Production (Prod) | ✓ | ✓ |
Additional environments | ✓ | 𐄂 |
Cloud Platform displays environments in the following order:
If your environment is running on Cloud Next technologies, you will also see the following highlighted icon:
To view the Overview page of an environment, click the triangle in the breadcrumbs menu on any page in the Cloud Platform interface to identify the environment you want to view, or click the name of the environment on the application’s Environments page.
From the Overview page of an environment, you can complete the following tasks:
Note for Site Factory subscribers
The Environments page for a Site Factory subscription doesn’t display most of these features because sites on that platform are managed differently. Only Site Factory subscribers can see the following links to the Site Factory Management Console:
Your Environments overview page also contains basic information about the infrastructure.
The Information section contains the following items:
The DNS Information section contains the following items: