Stages provide safe environments for development and testing that are separated from the production environment. They allow assets to migrate from one environment to another environment. When you set up a stage, an environment is created for testing and executing the Integrations.

Integration Cloud provides ways to manage the Integration development life cycle. The typical life cycle of an Integration development involves creating Integrations, testing them, and making them production worthy. Each of these activities can be termed as different stages of an Integration development life cycle. To aide these activities, Integration Cloud provides you with Stages.

A predefined set of stages is allowed, each representing an activity in the Integration life cycle development. They are:

By default, every user gets a Development Stage. In the Development Stage, you can create, update, delete, or view Integrations. You will not be able to create new assets in other stages. In other stages, Integrations can be pulled from a preceding stage or deleted. Further, Integrations can be pulled into a stage only from a preceding stage.

You can add stages only in the following order:

You can delete stages only in the following order: