AI engineering glossary · MLOps, LLMOps cloud
What is staging environment?
Staging environment (also called Staging): A copy of production, as close as practical in configuration and infrastructure, used for final testing before a release. Problems that only appear with realistic setups can be found here without affecting real users.
Staging environment: an example
Before launch, a chatbot update is tested in staging with the same cluster settings and a masked copy of production data.
Related terms
- Environment promotion
- Deployment pipeline
- Smoke test
- Production
More MLOps, LLMOps cloud terms
- Stateless service
- Terraform
- Token usage tracking
- Virtual private cloud
- Workflow orchestration
- Alerting
- Amazon EC2
- Amazon ECR
Where you learn it
Staging environment is part of the AI Engineering Program, which teaches it with notes, a hands-on lab and an exam. The first lesson is free.