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Depending on your DXP setup and products included, you will have two or more environments between which deployment is done. You can deploy to _Integration,_ _Preproduction, and Production_ yourself. See [Deploying](🔗) and [DXP self-deployment guide](🔗).



## Environment usage

The following scenarios are typical for the environments. The number of environments is based on the specific cloud package in your solution.

  • **Integration** – Partners and customers deploy the full solution, as daily builds or continuous releases. You can validate initial integrations with external systems, perform functional testing, and add initial content for a [first-time deployment](🔗). The integration environment has fixed configuration and no automatic scaling.

  • **Preproduction** – Used to test production deployment, and verify performance and operational functionality. You also can use it for UAT, load testing, or approved penetration testing. Preproduction scales automatically.

  • **Production** – The _live_ environment where website _users_ perform authoring of content, using the Optimizely content publishing flow or projects; website _visitors_ can access public content. The Production environment scales automatically.

## Optimizely Search & Navigation

[Optimizely Search & Navigation](🔗) is included in Optimizely DXP. Each of the environments can exist in a multisite setup, and each will have their own Search & Navigation index. In a multisite scenario, the sites share the same index, but each individual site has their own partition of the index, and a shared partition for shared content.

Note

A Production environment continuously updates the Search & Navigation index from the indexing job. However, for other environments and only after you change conventions, you must manually index when needed so as not to impact the Production environment.

## Environment-specific configurations

When you deploy to a Production environment, ensure that the correct configurations are applied. See [Environment configurations](🔗) about how to set up environment-specific configurations.

Important

Make sure you **never** use credentials, tokens, or endpoints from a Preproduction environment in a Production environment.