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