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NDS Labs "Test Drive" | NDS Labs "Developer" | NDS Share "Staging" | NDS Share | |
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| What is it used for? |
| <- Merge? Development Prototyping
| <- Merge? Alpha/beta testing |
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| When is it used? |
| Post-proposal development and integration | Alpha/beta testing | Production deployments |
| What does it include? |
| Customized services Realistic but limited resources Fully-configured common services (e.g., iRODS federation, Shibboleth IdP, Swift storage) | Stable releases of integrated services Real users Real resources Real users Stable release | Actual scale resources SLA Security/Hardening |
| Analogy |
| Development VMs | Staging system | Production system |
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