Preview Environments

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Overview

A preview environment is a short-lived, non-production environment for hosting new/in-development functionality to run quality checks, performance verifications, and customer demos.

Most companies require checks to pass before deploying in-development code to their pipeline (i.e., dev, staging, prod). This allows a safe circumvent to allow for rapid iteration and feedback.

How does it work?

(The following workflow can happen through GitHub hooks, the Nullstone CLI, and/or Nullstone UI)

1. An org admin configures the cloud provider hosting the preview infrastructure.
2. A user creates a preview environment.

nullstone envs new --name=<name> --stack=<stack> --preview

3. A user launches a preview environment.

nullstone envs up --stack=<stack> --env=<env-name-from-previous-step>

4. Nullstone provisions all infrastructure.
5. If auto-build is enabled, builds and deploys code automatically.
6. The user can build and deploy any code manually.