Managed Fusion clients have access to multiple environments. The number and type of environments depends on your setup and agreement. Usually, you have one production environment and multiple non-production environments, which you can use to try out new features, test configurations, and stage changes before pushing them into production.

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Types of environments

There are five types of environments that Lucidworks supports. A typical Managed Fusion client has access to two (development and production) or three (development, stage, and production) environments.

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Production

This is the environment where production workloads are served. Any changes made are publicly available to end users.

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Performance

This environment is used for performing load tests against production-equivalent configurations.

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Stage

This environment is where you can test development changes in a more scalable environment. This is also the environment where work is staged for promotion to the production environment.

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Quality Assurance

Smaller than stage, this environment is intended for running automated tests.

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Development

Also known as the sandbox or POC (proof of concept) environment, this is where you can perform application and system development tasks, such as designing, programming, and debugging.

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Roles and environments

The roles Managed Fusion clients have depend on the type of environment.
EnvironmentRoles
Development, Stage, Performance, Quality Assurancedeveloper, readonly
Productionrules, readonly