Environment
An Ascend Environment acts as a security boundary within an Instance. A typical Instance has three Environments:
- Development: for development work
- Staging: for testing and validation before production
- Production: for production data pipelines
A Workspace or Deployment is always attached to a specific Environment. Profiles and parameters alter behavior between Environments, typically pointing a Project at different Connections for development versus production.
Environment Vault
Each Environment has a Vault for storing secrets.