About the Development Server

Development Environment as a Sandbox

The development environment is isolated and acts as a sandbox where developers can make changes. These changes must be manually copied over to the production environment.

Unique Database

• Database: The development environment uses a unique, non-connected database, ensuring no direct impact on production data.
• Azure: The database and infrastructure are fully isolated within a separate Azure resource group.

Resource Groups

A resource group is a collection of resources like databases, servers, etc. There are two types of resource groups:

• Production Resource Group: Contains production-related resources (e.g., databases, servers).
• Development Resource Group: Contains development resources (e.g., isolated database, VM).

Virtual Machine

• The dev VM is a Windows OS running IIS that hosts the Rock instance.

Receipts

When you are logged into the dev server, you will get a receipt printed on the header of the app:

You are connected to the Test database.