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Environment

Meaning in cloud computing & devops, with examples

/ɪnˈvaɪrənmənt/nounCore term

In cloud computing & devops, environment means: A separate copy of the whole system, with its own servers, settings and data, used for one purpose such as development, testing or serving real users.

In Turkish: ortam

How it is used

Typical environments are dev, test, staging and production, often shortened to 'env'. Code moves from one environment to the next. 'Environment variables' are settings passed to an application from outside its code.

Example sentences

  1. The bug only happens in the test environment, so it's probably a configuration problem.

  2. Each developer can create a temporary environment for their branch.

Common collocations

  • test environment
  • production environment
  • environment variable
  • development environment
  • set up an environment
  • productionThe live environment that real customers use. A problem in production affects users directly, so changes there are made with the most care.
  • stagingAn environment set up to be as close as possible to production, used for final testing of a new version before it goes live.
  • deployTo put a new version of an application or service onto servers so that it starts running there, for example in a test environment or for real users.
  • pipelineAn automated series of steps, such as building, testing and deploying, that runs every time code changes and stops if one step fails.

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