The environments supporting production are categorized into environment roles based on their function.
An Archive environment is a repository for data that is removed from production.
ConfigLab, Compare Source, and Sync Target environment roles are discussed in Configuration Lab.
The following illustration depicts a production environment with multiple supporting environments:
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