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Environments and deployment view

Where every container runs in development, staging and production, and how the environments differ.

Deployment view (production)

Figure 2. C4 deployment view of production.
Figure 2. C4 deployment view of production.

Environment parity

Aspect Development Staging Production
Frontend URL web-dev.padi.com web-stage.padi.com web-prod.padi.com, then www.padi.com at cutover
CMS URL cms-dev.padi.com cms-stage.padi.com cms-prod.padi.com
Finder URL locator-dev.padi.com locator-stage.padi.com locator-api.padi.com, search-api.padi.com
Pipeline approval none none (edge: yes) manual approval
Access control Basic auth (frontend), Shield (CMS) Basic auth, Shield Basic auth on web-prod until cutover. Shield on cms-prod editorial paths; content API paths exempt.
Drupal memcache 256 MB 1,024 MB 2,048 MB
Edge HTML cache On, 24 h TTL by page class On, 24 h TTL by page class On, 24 h TTL by page class
Localisation Worker mode act act act on web-prod
Finder See Finder Same Same
Telemetry Off Off On
Test data Content copied from production Content copied from production Live content