Best Practices for setting up environments for production level EDS website

[OsmanWa]

Hey everyone,

We have an EDS website which we want to deploy on our AEM Cloud CDN using Edge Delivery Solution. (Screenshot below)
I do understand the steps needed to configure and connect an EDS website to a Domain. However, this single domain instance will then be our production. I want a staging environment before in this pipeline, so it should somehow look like this:

main----.aem.live ---> www.stagingURL.com ----> www.productionURL.com 

Is that pipeline possible in this configuration for EDS? What are the recommended best practices? 

Thank you 🙂 

[kautuk_sahni]

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Kindly take a moment to review this question and share your valuable insights. Your expertise would be greatly appreciated!

[Tad_Reeves · Accepted solution]

Great question.  I'm assuming that you already have a CDN configuration underway to be able to map your domain to your main--[yoursite].aem.live domain.  If not, I put a bunch of sample CDN configurations for such in a blog post.

But if you want a staging URL, like www-stage.mysite.com, there are two different ways you can map this.  If you're interested in having a CDN in front of the staging CONTENT, you can use the CDN configuration to map to your .page URL to a separate domain using originSelectors in your CDN YAML.  You also may want to make a staging URL that instead uses a specific branch in your code to test that staging branch through the CDN, i.e. something like this: 

originSelectors:
    rules:
      - name: staging
        when: { reqProperty: domain, like: www-staging.mysite.com } 
        action:
          type: selectOrigin
          originName: mysite-staging-url
    origins:
      - name: mysite-staging-url
        domain: stagingbranch--projectname--siteowner.aem.live
        forwardHost: false 

Hope that helps!