What is Staging environment?
Also called: Staging
The short answer
A staging environment is a private copy of a website that mirrors production, used to test changes before they go live.
Staging environment, explained
Preview deployments give every change its own temporary staging site.
Questions people ask about Staging environment
What is Staging environment?
A staging environment is a private copy of a website that mirrors production, used to test changes before they go live.
Related terms
Production is the live version of a website that real visitors use, as opposed to development and staging copies.
Preview deploymentA preview deployment is a temporary, shareable URL of a site built from one branch or pull request, so changes can be reviewed live before release.
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.
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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