Environments

Page Goal

Explain environment management in Temps, including how to set up development, staging, and production environments. Help users implement proper deployment workflows.

Target Persona

Professional Paula - A developer who:

Needs proper dev/staging/prod workflow
Works in a team environment
Wants to test before production deployment
Needs environment-specific configurations
Values: Safety, professional workflows, best practices
Pain points: Deploying untested code, environment configuration drift
Timeline: 10 minutes to understand environment strategy

Key Content to include

1. Environment Concept

What are environments in Temps
Common environment types (dev, staging, prod)
Environment isolation

2. Environment Variables

Setting environment-specific variables
Secrets management
Variable precedence and inheritance
Accessing variables in your app

3. Environment Configuration

Per-environment settings
Branch-to-environment mapping
Build configurations per environment
Domain configuration per environment

4. Deployment Workflows

Deploying to staging first
Promoting to production
Preview deployments
Rollback strategies

5. Best Practices

Environment naming conventions
Managing secrets across environments
Testing in staging
Production deployment checklist

6. Advanced Scenarios

Multiple staging environments
Feature branch deployments
Environment cloning

Success Metrics

User understands how to set up multiple environments
User can configure environment variables properly
User knows how to implement safe deployment workflows
User can test changes before production