Define Your Environments

An environment lets you define and manage Oracle Cloud PaaS, and Oracle Cloud SaaS service instances as a single entity.

You might create an environment for your QA team with an Oracle Database Classic Cloud Service instance to host data, say, and maybe an Oracle Java Cloud Service instance to deploy the application to and run Selenium tests. You could then create a Stage environment that uses the same Oracle Database Classic Cloud Service instance as the QA environment, but a different Oracle Java Cloud Service instance to deploy the application to.

If you're working with Oracle Cloud Applications extensions, you'll have a VB Studio Development environment that points to your Oracle Cloud Applications development instance (this environment is created automatically if the Application Extension template was used to create the project). You can create additional environments for Oracle Cloud Applications and add the production instance of your current identity domain, or an external Oracle Cloud Applications instance from another identity domain. Note that you can only add one Oracle Cloud Applications instance to an environment. See Add the Oracle Cloud Application's Production Instance to an Environment in Administering Visual Builder Studio for more information.

If you're working with visual applications, you'll have a VB Studio Development environment that points to your Visual Builder development instance (this environment is created automatically if the Visual Application template was used to create the project). You can create additional environments for visual apps and add the production instance of your current identity domain, or an external Visual Builder instance from another identity domain. Note that you can add only one Visual Builder instance to an environment. See Add the Visual Builder Production Instance to an Environment in Administering Visual Builder Studio for more information.

You can access and manage the project’s environments from the Environments page:

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From the Environments page, you can:

• Create and delete environments
• Add or remove service instances from existing environments
• Update the details of the environment

  The Details tab displays details, such as name and description, for the selected environment. You can also instantly see the health of all service instances comprising each environment right on the Project Home page or on the Environments page.

• View the details of its service instances

  The Service Instance tab captures information, such as the health status of and response times for service instances, their account names, and service IDs, for each environment in a single place, so you won’t have to hunt for it later.

• View deployments

  The Deployments tab shows deployments for extensions and visual apps. Use the Application Extensions toggle to show deployments for all projects associated with this environment or use the Visual Applications toggle to show deployments for the current project only.