Create Short-Term Living Environment

A short-term living environment is a full copy of the example service, provisioned for a limited period to support a specific piece of work such as a large feature or a load test, then torn down.

Creating one is a matter of running the environment provisioning pipeline with a unique environment name and a defined expiry date. The pipeline provisions its own database, its own storage, and its own set of application servers, isolated from every other environment.

Environments created this way are torn down automatically on their expiry date unless the expiry is explicitly extended, which keeps unused environments from accumulating cost indefinitely.