# Staging & production

A step of the [Cloud application](https://gradus.kazet.blog/tree/cloud-application) tree on Gradus, in the Build & ship area: Config, lint, releases, IaC.

Page: https://gradus.kazet.blog/tree/cloud-application/step/staging-and-production

Stand up separate staging and production environments from the same infrastructure code, with promotion from one to the other.

Usually comes after: [Infrastructure as code](https://gradus.kazet.blog/tree/cloud-application/step/infrastructure-as-code).

## Prompt for your AI assistant

```
Create separate staging and production environments from the existing infrastructure code, parameterised by environment, and add a deployment workflow that promotes a tested build from staging to production.
```

Every step of the tree: https://gradus.kazet.blog/tree/cloud-application/llms.txt