Do you use release environments?

I’m curious about how much traditional development lifecycle people are using in their ICM builds and *why* they found that was the right level.

Do you bother with some kind of development > staging > production equivalent? If so, what does this look like in your setup?

For me, development is essentially a system playground folder where things are before they are ready and wired.

I’m using my “governance” settings as a cheap way to have staging without actually having staging - I dial back the permissions when something is released and see how it performs on several runs before loosening those off and letting it go more on its own without permissions - essentially prod.

Because what I’m currently building myself is for a user market of exactly one (me), this works exceptionally well.

But it’s on my mind - what are you all going for? And what’s the thinking behind it?

Yes, all the way

Nah, too much work

Sometimes depending on the build

What’s a release environment?

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