# Environments

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URL: https://nocodb.com/docs/apps/environments
Last updated: 2026-10-05

Build and test changes to a NocoDB app in a safe copy of the base, then release them to Production with one deploy.

Release app changes with confidence. **Environments** give you a separate copy of the base, for example **Staging**, where you build and test changes to your app. The live app continues to run on Production. When the changes are ready, one deploy releases them.

## Why use environments

* **Safe changes.** Build and test new features without risk to the live app or its data.
* **One-step release.** A deploy applies your changes to Production and publishes the app.
* **Test accounts for tests.** Integrations and variables can have a different value in each environment, for example a test API key in Staging.
* **Your own environments.** Use the built-in Staging environment, or create your own, for example "QA" or "Demo".

## How it works

1. From the base context menu, go to **Environments** → **New environment** and select an environment, for example **Staging**. NocoDB copies the base, with or without its records.
2. Build and test your changes in the copy with NocoAI.
3. Click **Deploy**. NocoDB applies the changes to Production and publishes the app.

<img alt="Open this base in an environment" src={__img0} placeholder="blur" />

## Availability

Environments are available on the **Scale** plan and above.

## Related

* [Deploy an app](/docs/apps/deploy-app)
* [Connections](/docs/apps/connections)
* [Secure vibe coding](/docs/apps/security)

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## Related pages

- [Apps](https://nocodb.com/docs/apps.md): NocoDB Apps is an AI app builder for creating enterprise-grade work apps: describe the app, and NocoAI builds it on the data you already have, with teams, permissions, an API and an MCP server.
- [Vibe Coding with NocoDB Apps](https://nocodb.com/docs/apps/vibe-coding.md): Vibe coding is making software by describing it to AI. NocoDB Apps bring vibe coding to enterprise-grade work apps, on your own data, with teams, permissions and safe deploys.
- [Create an App](https://nocodb.com/docs/apps/create-app.md): Create a NocoDB app with AI: describe the app, and NocoAI builds it on your data. Start from the App tile in a base, with Build with AI, or in the NocoAI chat.
- [AI App Builder](https://nocodb.com/docs/apps/app-builder.md): Build and change enterprise-grade work apps in NocoDB's AI app builder: describe a change to NocoAI in the chat, and test it in the live preview.
- [Data for Apps](https://nocodb.com/docs/apps/data.md): Build NocoDB apps on the data you already have: NocoDB tables, your own PostgreSQL or MySQL database, and data that syncs from tools such as GitHub and HubSpot, with no record limit.
- [Secure Vibe Coding](https://nocodb.com/docs/apps/security.md): How NocoDB Apps keep AI-built work apps safe: teams and action grants, record rules, reviewed public pages, secrets in connections, scoped API tokens, environments and version restore.
- [Members and Teams](https://nocodb.com/docs/apps/members-and-teams.md): Control who can use a NocoDB app and what they can do in it with app teams, members and action grants.
- [Public Access](https://nocodb.com/docs/apps/public-access.md): Make pages of a NocoDB app public, and choose which actions visitors can run without signing in.