Limits and tradeoffs of multiple environments

[#1]

Hi,

Can someone prey enlighten me on the following questions -

- What is the maximum number of environments can we have on a Cloud instance

- What is the trade off of having multiple environments in terms of

-- Performance.

-- Cost

[gnanasekaran · Accepted solution]

Environments provides logical and/or physical isolation to your api deployments, allowing you to map your existing [backend] delivery/release process to the APIs

Performance and Cost would depend on what kind of isolation you are looking at,

Logical -> then your environments are going to share same infrastructure, so plan accordingly on the cumulative traffic for all environments and metrics.

or Physical -> you get runtime isolation for environment

or both - you could have some envs that are logically isolated [for eg, dev, test, stage] and some that are physically isolated [for eg, prod]

For both the options - there aren't any performance implications - its basically a enabler to integrate with your existing processes.

But there might be cost implications depending on what you are trying to do - you need to reach out to the account team, they will guide you on what you would need based on the requirements

[#3]

Thanks @Mukundha Madhavan