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+title: How many environments do you need?
+date: 2024-12-23
+permalink: daily/2024/12/23/how-many-environments-do-you-need
+tags:
+  - software-development
+  - git
+  - deployments
+cta: ~
+snippet: |
+  How many environments do you have for your software application? How many do you need?
+---
+
+How many environments do you have for your software application, other than live/production?
+
+Testing?
+Staging?
+UAT?
+Pilot?
+QA?
+Dev?
+
+What do you use each one for?
+
+What if you only had one pre-prod environment and production?
+
+What if you only had production?
+
+What if you only had one branch in your code repository?
+
+No more merge conflicts.
+
+No more confusion about which environment to test a change on.
+
+How much simpler would that make things?