Flexible Environments (beta)
Use flexible environments to create a separate workflow along side the left-to-right deployment approach in Umbraco Cloud.
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Use flexible environments to create a separate workflow along side the left-to-right deployment approach in Umbraco Cloud.
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Beta feature: Some features might not be fully available.
Flexible Environments allow users to create and manage environments outside the regular left-to-right deployment flow. This enhancement provides flexibility in orchestrating code and content workflows, empowering developers and content editors to work in a way that best suits their needs.
While the mainline environments use a horizontal deployment flow, flexible environments work differently. A flexible environment is added to an existing mainline environment and only deploys to and from that environment. Get an overview of the different types of environments in the Environments article.
The image above shows a project setup including two mainline environments and one flexible environment attached to the left-most mainline environment.
With Flexible Environments, teams can create environments as needed, allowing for more efficient and tailored workflows.
This feature enables:
Parallel development and testing: Developers can create isolated environments for different features, bug fixes, or client-specific work without impacting the main development branch.
Custom workflow orchestration: Teams can define custom flows of code and content deployment rather than being restricted to a linear left-to-right approach.
Easier hotfixes and feature releases: Urgent fixes can be deployed directly without being blocked by unfinished work in other environments.
Improved Content Management: Content editors can create, test, and validate content changes without depending on a specific environment.
A flexible environment is added and connected to a single mainline environment.
Developers can develop and build features in the flexible environment without affecting the mainline environment.
Once a feature is complete, it can be merged back into the mainline environment and become part of regular deployment flow.
When changes are made to the mainline environment, they must be pulled into the flexible environment before changes can be pushed.
Learn more about the deployment process in the Deployments section.
Before you can add a Flexible environment to your project, the following prerequisites must be met:
Uses Umbraco Version 10 or greater.
Uses Deploy Version Greater than 10.4.1, 13.3.0, 14.2.0 or greater.
Only one flexible environment is available.
Flexible environments are available only for projects paid with invoices or credits.
CI/CD Pipelines are not supported.
Flexible Environments are not available for Heartcore projects.
Starter
QA + Production
Standard
Flexible + QA + Production Development + QA + Production
Professional
Flexible + Development + QA + Production
