It is not unusual for organizations to create separate instances of solutions for the different stages of development such as functional test, performance test, training, preproduction, and production support. The following diagram illustrates the two ends of the spectrum in terms of decoupling environments:
In this scenario, we have a single management cloud which manages gateways deployed into the different environment stages. Each environment's gateway(s) belong to separate logical groupings. For example, if we decided to separate our gateways based on whether they supported internal ...