What Is a Staging Environment and How Do You Set It Up on Your Server?

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1. What Is Staging?

An exact copy of production.

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2. Difference

Staging	Production
test	live

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3. Why?

Numeric Example

• 30 min downtime

👉 5,000 TL in losses

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4. Setup

Subdomain

staging.site.com

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Files

cp -r site staging

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DB

mysqldump prod > staging.sql

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5. Nginx

server {
 server_name staging.site.com;
}

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6. Docker

services:
 app:
  environment:
   - ENV=staging

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7. Git

git push staging main

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8. Scenario

Metric	Without	With
Downtime	30 min	0

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9. Best Practice

✔ identical to production ✔ deploy to staging first

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10. Conclusion

👉 staging is mandatory

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CTA

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Internal Links

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• /hosting-migration
• /yedekleme-testi
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