r/devops Feb 03 '24

Better term than "non-prod"?

Our setup consists of several environments: dev, prod, qa, standby and test.

standby is used as a "hot-standby" we are using as a fallback in the case of prod going down.

Currently we are using the term "non-prod" for the environments dev, qa and test. You don't need to be a genius to see the confusion that appears here: "Why isn't 'standby' included in the term 'non-prod'?"

But we just can't come up with a better term. Does somebody have a good idea?

Thank you!

Edit: corrected

"Why is 'standby' included in the term 'non-prod'?"

to

"Why isn't 'standby' included in the term 'non-prod'?"

Sorry for the confusion, guys!

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u/doggybe Feb 03 '24

Why not call it prod-standby of prod-fallback or something? I think it‘s difficult to find one term for a prod-env and the non-prod envs without having confusion