Think of the product as an application that is not bound to a single database instance. To understand ConfigLab concepts, you must think of the product as a collection of environments. An environment is an installed version of the product database, application server and web server.
There is only one environment in the application whose database contains production data. Let's call this the production environment. Other environments exist to support the production environment in various ways. There is no logical limit to the number of supporting environments that may exist within the application.
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