ghaymah-exam-Mohamed_Moustafa-SRE/q3-cicd

Staging vs Production

Staging Environment

The staging environment is a pre-production environment used for testing and validation before releasing changes to real users.

Purpose

• Test new features
• Validate bug fixes
• Verify deployment process
• Run integration and user acceptance testing (UAT)

Characteristics

• Mirrors the production environment as closely as possible
• Used by developers and QA engineers
• May contain test or sample data
• Failures have no impact on end users

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Production Environment

The production environment is the live environment that serves real users.

Purpose

• Deliver the application to customers
• Provide stable and reliable service

Characteristics

• Used by real users
• Contains production data
• Requires high availability and monitoring
• Deployments should be carefully reviewed and approved

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Comparison

Feature	Staging	Production
Users	Developers / QA	End Users
Data	Test Data	Production Data
Purpose	Testing & Validation	Live Service
Stability	Medium	High
Manual Approval	Optional	Recommended

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Connecting to Ghaymah CLI

Prerequisites

• Ghaymah Cloud account
• GitHub repository
• Dockerfile
• .ghaymah.json configuration file

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Step 1: Install Ghaymah CLI

curl -sSL https://cli.ghaymah.systems/install.sh | bash

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Step 2: Authenticate

$HOME/ghaymah/bin/gy auth login \
  --email "YOUR_EMAIL" \
  --password "YOUR_PASSWORD"

For GitHub Actions, store these credentials as repository secrets:

• GHAYMAH_EMAIL
• GHAYMAH_PW

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Step 3: Create .ghaymah.json

Example:

{
  "id": "<application-id>",
  "projectId": "<project-id>",
  "dockerFileName": "Dockerfile",
  "resourceTier": "t1"
}

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Step 4: Deploy the Application

$HOME/ghaymah/bin/gy resource app launch

This command automatically:

1. Reads the .ghaymah.json configuration.
2. Builds the Docker image from the project's Dockerfile.
3. Pushes the image to Ghaymah Cloud's internal Container Registry.
4. Deploys the application.

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Step 5: Monitor Deployment

Deployment status can be checked using:

• GitHub Actions logs
• Ghaymah Dashboard
• Ghaymah CLI logs

Example:

gy app logs

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Deployment Workflow

Developer
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GitHub Actions
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Install Ghaymah CLI
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Authenticate
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Build Docker Image
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Push to Ghaymah Container Registry
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Deploy Application
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Application Running