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Environments And Workspace Structure

Environments separate workloads by lifecycle, risk, and ownership.

Moltern environment groups

Moltern uses two levels:

LevelMeaning
Environment groupA container for related environments, such as a product, team, or internal tool group.
EnvironmentA deployment target such as production, staging, development, or preview.

When To Create A New Environment Group​

Create a new environment group when workloads should be managed separately from another product or team.

Examples:

  • Customer Portal
  • Internal Tools
  • AI Lab
  • Marketing Sites
  • Data Platform

When To Create A New Environment​

Create a new environment when the same project needs more than one lifecycle stage.

Common environments:

  • production
  • staging
  • development
  • preview
  • sandbox

Naming Guidance​

Use short, obvious names:

  • Good: production, staging, ai-lab, internal-tools.
  • Avoid: names that only one person understands, names with dates, or names that mix multiple purposes.

Production Separation​

Moltern dashboard summary by workspace

Production should be separate from testing or preview work.

Use separate environments so that:

  • Production variables are not reused in development.
  • Temporary experiments do not crowd the production dashboard.
  • Failed test deployments do not obscure production incidents.
  • Billing usage can be understood by purpose.

Environment Checklist​

Before deploying into a new environment, define:

  • Owner.
  • Purpose.
  • Whether public routes are allowed.
  • Which secrets belong there.
  • Which services are shared.
  • Whether the environment is temporary or long-lived.
  • Expected cleanup date for preview or sandbox environments.

Empty Environment Rules​

Moltern may require an environment to be empty before deletion. If deletion fails:

  1. Open applications and services filtered to that environment.
  2. Delete or move workloads that still belong to it.
  3. Confirm no dependency service remains.
  4. Retry environment deletion.