Migrating projects from the test environment to the production environment
After successfully creating and testing projects in the test environment, you now want to move those projects to the production environment. You also need to propagate updates from the testing environment to the production environment as necessary. Although it sounds complicated, moving new and updated projects from the test environment to the production environment is actually quite straightforward, as explained below.
See also Import/Export scenarios: When is a password required?.
Landing and Storage Connections (landing, storage and provisioning) will not be overridden when moving to a production environment. This also includes the file format set in the provisioning task.
The Landing Zone and Storage Zone display names must be identical in both the testing and the production environments.
To perform the initial migration from the testing environment to the production environment:
- Export the project from the test environment as described in Exporting a project.
- Import the test project to the production environment as described in Importing a project.
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Edit the connection settings to point to the production Landing Zone and Storage Zone.
For more information, see Defining Landing Zones and Defining a connection to the Storage Zonerespectively.
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Configure notifications and scheduling as needed.
For more information, see Scheduling tasks and Notifications respectively.
To propagate updates from the testing environment to the production environment:
- Export the project from the test environment as described in Exporting a project.
- Import the test project to the production environment as described in Importing a project.