Devops

The setup and use of a separate staging environment is covered (almost) adequately by Heroku’s documentation on the matter. And yet I must be missing something, as forking my app didn’t do what I expected. In forking a running production app to create a staging clone environment what I expected to have afterwards was: A Heroku app called appname-staging, running the same version of the application A newly-created hobby-dev Postgres instance containing the production data That the staging app should be targeting the new staging database, i.