Staging Environment

We have a staging environment running on AWS which is a scaled down replica of our managed FlowFuse offering, with a separate domain. Staging URL and sign in details can be found in the Developer Vault in 1Password.

Deployment

Any change to core product repositories triggers a series of GitHub Actions that results in staging being updated with the latest code. This can take up to 30 minutes to complete.

The deploy action can be monitored here.

AWS Account

Access to the AWS account is restricted and not generally available. If you believe you have a need to access the AWS account, raise an Access/Permission Request issue and assign to the CTO for review.

Email

Amazon SES is setup on staging however it is still running in sandbox mode which means only verified address & domains can RECEIVE emails from it, this is currently limited to flowfuse.com and flowfuse.dev email addresses.

If you need to use another email address with staging then you should raise an issue in CloudProject and assign to the CTO for review.

If approved, the email will need to be added to the SES configuration in the AWS console.

Test Email accounts

As the flowfuse.com email domain is configured to use SSO, it cannot be used to create test accounts in the Staging environment. Instead, use <user>@flowfuse.dev; we have an email forwarder in place so email sent to foo@flowfuse.dev will get relayed to foo@flowfuse.com. This also works with foo+test@flowfuse.dev type addresses. This means you can setup multiple test accounts under your own email. It also means we have visibility on who owns particular test accounts in the staging environment.

Accessing Staging

To access the staging environment, log in with your @flowfuse.com account through Google SSO. The url for the staging environment is https://forge.flowfuse.dev.

Using staging

When setting up a team you'll need to enter billing details. For credit card details, use the Stripe mock data.

As the staging cluster is purposefully smaller than production, please be mindful of deleting resources after use.