Environments

An environment is a user-defined collection of resources that host applications. Environments are typically modeled on some stage of the software project life cycle, such as development, QA, or production.

Environments can have different topologies. For example, an environment can consist of a single machine, be spread over several machines, or be spread over clusters of machines.

Environments are created at the global level and used by multiple applications. This enables IT organizations to use shared or application-specific environments.

Release Automation maintains an inventory of every artifact deployed to each environment and tracks the differences between them.