Application environments
Each Divio application includes three environments for the application by default.
The three environments are created in Docker containers from the same images.
- Local, running on your own computer
- Test, running on our Cloud servers
- Live, running on our Cloud servers
In our recommended workflow, development is done locally, before being deployed to Test and finally to Live.
It is also possible to set up multiple cloud environments for an application. For example, a common scheme is to use four: Development, Testing, QA, Production.
Default application conditions
Some of these conditions may be readily altered according your needs, for example the DEBUG setting. See also How to run a local application in live configuration.
| Local | Test | Live | |
|---|---|---|---|
STAGE environment variable | local | test | live |
DEBUG environment variable | True | True | False |
| static files served by | local server | uWSGI | |
| media files served by | local server | our Cloud S3 service | |
| database runs in | a local container | our Cloud database cluster | |
| number of application containers | one according to subscription | ||
| application container sleeps | n/a | after 15 minutes' activity | never |