Overview

Even with a strong separation between application and infrastructure configuration thanks to Components and Datacenters, the concept of an Environment remains an important element facilitating collaboration and managing shared configuration. An Environment, which is basically a namespace, serves as a way for teams to collaborate with one another - teams creating and operating Components that depend on one another, and Component teams collaborating with the platform teams managing the Datacenter.

For developers, there are three main ways to interact with an Environment:

• up: The arcctl up command allows developers to create ephemeral environments that automatically clean themselves up.
• deploy: The arcctl deploy command adds or updates Component configuration in an existing Environment, leaving other Components untouched.
• apply: The arcctl apply command takes in an entire Environment configuration and updates the target environment to match said configuration - adding any new resources and cleaning up resources that are no longer needed.