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Environments
Production, staging and preview branches: isolated copies of your database, keys and functions.
What an environment is
An environment is a fully isolated copy of your project, with its own database, API keys, secrets and function deployments. Every project starts with development and production.
Default environments
Environment | Used for | Data |
|---|---|---|
| Local work and | Seed data, safe to reset |
| Pre-release checks and QA | Copy of production, anonymised |
| Your live app | Real customer data |
Switching environments
Production is protected
Schema changes reach production only through a reviewed migration. tessera push never targets production directly.
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