Overview

An Environment in Solsta represents a deployable state of your Product — like development, staging, or production.

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Each Environment contains:

Note: Environments let teams install, update, and roll back specific builds of their projects with version control and tagging.

• One or more Repositories (sets of files or assets).
• Snapshots of release combinations.
• Delta update paths (for optimized updates).
  
  

Creating an Environment

Note: Only Admin-level users (Organization, Product, or Environment Admins) can create environments.

Steps to Create

1. Log in to the Solsta Desktop Application using an Admin account.
2. Navigate to your Product → open the Environments tab.
3. Click Create Environment (bottom left corner).
4. Fill in the following fields:
   
   • Name (required): Friendly name, e.g., “Dev,” “QA,” or “Production.”
   • Description (optional): Context for users.
   • Source Location: Select a server or storage bucket (if multiple available).
   • Update Path Count: Number of delta update paths Solsta should automatically create between versions.
5. Click OK to create the environment.
   
   

Block-Level Differencing: Tracks and processes only changed data blocks instead of whole files, improving efficiency. Continues even when Deltas are disabled.