Most customers are installing FlexDeploy in Test and Production environment. Purpose The purpose of the Test environment is to try various patches or beta capabilities of plugins, or even trying some complex workflow and/or custom plugins. So The FlexDeploy test environment may be restricted for use to very by select members of the team. It is good idea to periodically (mostly when applying major FlexDeploy upgrade/patch) clone FlexDeploy Production configuration/execution data to FlexDeploy Test environment, which will allow you to easily validate new FlexDeploy upgrade/patch.
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