Environment Management
Production vs Sandbox
Unlike Sandboxes, the Production environment doesn't have limitations on rate limiting and resource usage, such as orders, API requests, products, etc.
The limits imposed on sandboxes are displayed in the Cloud Console.
Snapshots
Database snapshots can be created and replicated from any sandbox or production environment, allowing staging environments to be created.
This feature enables productive workflows for development and testing, for example:
- Replicating the latest production data to a staging environment.
- Creating integration tests. You can create snapshots that would be used as a starting point for integration tests.
- Migration scripts. During the development of migration scripts, it might be desirable to do it in steps, where each successful step can be saved and reverted during the development of the next step.
Follow the quickstart guide to learn how to use snapshots.
Version upgrades
Saleor versions can be upgraded on demand via the console. Sequential upgrades (from one minor to the next minor) are backward compatible and do not require downtime. Thus, upgrades are never disruptive.
Each environment has independent version management, thus making it possible to test new features before production upgrades.
Projects without a production environment (aka free projects) automatically upgrade to the latest version. To disable automatic version upgrades of sandboxes, you would need to have a production instance in the same project.
Access Control
To control Trusted client origins and Allowed API origins, see the guide for API access restriction.
Subdomain Management
Subdomains of your environments (e.g., [your_subdomain].saleor.cloud) can be changed of your instance on demand via console.