What is Production?
Also called: Prod, Live site
The short answer
Production is the live version of a website that real visitors use, as opposed to development and staging copies.
Production, explained
Changes reach production only after they are tested; secrets and data differ between environments.
Questions people ask about Production
What is Production?
Production is the live version of a website that real visitors use, as opposed to development and staging copies.
Related terms
A staging environment is a private copy of a website that mirrors production, used to test changes before they go live.
DeployTo deploy is to publish a new version of a website to its host so visitors see it; modern hosts deploy automatically when code is pushed to Git.
Environment variablesEnvironment variables are settings and secrets, such as API keys and database URLs, supplied to an app by its environment instead of written into the code.
CI/CDCI/CD is automation that checks and ships code: continuous integration runs builds and tests on every change, and continuous deployment releases what passes.
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