Setting up Environments

What are environments and how do they help

I just signed up. Why do I see a few environments configured?

Ozone bootstraps a few environments by default. They are as follows

• Dev

• Staging

• Production (Categorised as a production environment type)

Why do I need to set an environment up?

Environments are logical groupings to cater to Variables, Applications and Clusters bindings. A single environment maps to a single cluster and can contain environment specific values for variables.

An application can then be deployed to any of these environments, with auto-injection of variables for that environment during deployment workflows

How do I set it up?

• Navigate to Resources in the sidebad

• Click on Environments

• Click on +New Environment

• Give your environment a name (for example dev-front-end)

• Mark it as production or non-production environment

• Save the environment

Flow Summary

Ozone creates a mapping to each environment for every variable that you define within ozone. Imagine a scenario where a Database credential varies per environment since there are multiple instances, ie, one for each environment.

Thus, you can have multiple values for variables across environments and hence re-usable pipeline definitions