Environment Best Practices

Naming Conventions

The naming conventions applied for environments are as follows:

• [ENVIRONMENT]

Application-related environments shall follow this format:

• [APPLICATION]_[ENV]

Generic vs. Application Environments

The environments created in CDA should be in line with the main environments used for application deployments.

Generic Environments are typically used if all application teams work with the same environments and if the properties on the environments, if existing, apply to all applications. In this case, a development environment would contain deployment targets for multiple applications. In line with this, if no physical separation is required between application environments, generic environments can be used.

Examples of generic environments which could be implemented are as follows:

• TEST
• QA
• PRODUCTION

In cases where a physical separation is required, application environments need to be created. This is the case if different properties are required on the environments for each application or if there are different infrastructure teams managing the different environments. It could also be that there are no different properties required but your company regulations require individual environments per application.