Content Distribution from Production(Author)--> Stage(Author/publish) -->. dev(Author/publish) environments

[#1]

Hi There 

We are using AMS in our project and aem environments are in cloud. We need to implement content distribution among all the environments and content has to be sync from the higher environments to lower environments. 

Use Case:

We have a Production environment(Content authors, author content) this content has to sync to lower environment stage and dev. Once content authored in production environment it has to be distributed to the production publish and also to lower environments(stage, dev). 

[#2 · Accepted solution]

@sumanthaem 

1. Prod Author to Prod Publish can be done with Forward Distribution agent.

2. Prod Author to lower environment author: There's no author to author distribution agent and it would require communication to be allowed between prod and lower environments.

https://github.com/apache/sling-old-svn-mirror/blob/trunk/contrib/extensions/distribution/README.md#...

3. There's a content transfer tool for transferring content from on-prem or AMS instance to aem cloud instance and you can see if that works for cloud to cloud content transfer too. This would also require whitelisting of source and destination IPs.

https://experienceleague.adobe.com/docs/experience-manager-cloud-service/moving/cloud-migration/cont...

And you would have to liaise with the AEM Cloud provisioning team to work out the solution.

[#3]

If your project supported by AMS team,

AMS team will take care of this task by doing custom AMS script for this sync. You can raise a request to the AMS team with your requirements.

1) Paths to sync to lower environments

2) Time to sync

3) Lower environment details

[#4]

@sumanthaem will there be any time when content will be authored/updated on a lower enviornment (i.e. dev/stage)? or it's going to be always from prod -> stage -> dev?