Ascend Environment

An Ascend Environment acts as a security boundary. Typically an Ascend Instance will have three Environments:

• Development: for development work
• Staging: for testing and validation before production
• Production: for production data pipelines

A given Workspace or Deployment is always attached to or created in a specific Environment. Profiles and Parameters are used to alter the behavior between Environments, typically for pointing the Project at different Connections like a development versus production Snowflake database.

Environment Vault

Each Environment has a Vault for storing secrets.