Build sophisticated multi-environment CI/CD pipelines. Manage development, staging, and production deployments with approvals, testing, and progressive rollouts.

Learning Objectives

Design multi-environment deployment pipelines

Implement environment-specific configurations

Add manual approval gates for production

Promote releases through environments

Manage environment parity and drift

Step 1

Design environment strategy

Plan development, staging, and production environments.

Commands to Run

cat > environments-design.md << 'EOF'
# Environment Strategy

## Development
- Purpose: Feature development and testing
- Deployment: Automatic on feature branch merge
- Data: Synthetic test data
- Resources: Minimal (cost optimization)

## Staging
- Purpose: Pre-production validation
- Deployment: Automatic from staging branch
- Data: Anonymized production data
- Resources: Production-like

## Production
- Purpose: Live customer traffic
- Deployment: Manual approval required
- Data: Real customer data
- Resources: Full production scale
EOF

cat environments-design.md

What This Does

Three-tier environment strategy common. Dev for rapid iteration, staging for final validation, production for customers. Each has appropriate safeguards and resources.

Expected Outcome

Clear environment strategy documented. Team understands purpose and deployment rules for each tier.

Pro Tips

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Dev: fast feedback, low cost
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Staging: production-like for validation
3
Production: manual gates, full monitoring
4
Consider canary environment too
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Document data policies per environment

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