Environments

Environments are optional and provide a mechanism for grouping providers. The most common grouping patterns include grouping by geographical location, organizational structure, or production readiness. For example, you may want to group providers geographically and create environments such as East Coast or South America. Or you may want to group providers by their production readiness and create environments such as Production, Development, and Test.

Resource environments restrict the set of resource providers that can be chosen in the package workflow (release pipeline). When provider selection occurs during deployment, only providers belonging to one or more of the environments associated will be eligible for selection. If no environments are associated, provider selection is not restricted based on environment membership.

Tasks

You can perform the following tasks in this area:

• View providers by environment. In the drop-down box, select to view providers By Environment. Environments are listed in the left pane. The list of providers contained by the environment is displayed in the right pane. Disabled providers are indicated by the disabled icon and will not be selected when provisioning new services.
• Manage environments. In the drop-down box, select By Environment. Select the manage icon. For more information, see Manage environments.
• Select providers to include in an environment. In the drop-down box, select By Environment. Select the environment in which you want to include a provider. Click the Select button. In the dialog box, add or remove resource providers to or from the environment. If desired, use the drop-down box in the dialog to filter the resource provider list by provider type.

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