Stages provide safe environments for development and testing that are separated from the production environment. They allow Integrations to migrate from the development environment to the production environment through the intermediate environments.

Integration Cloud provides ways to manage the life cycle of an Integration development. 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 life cycle development. To aide these activities, Integration Cloud provides you with Stages.

Your organization is a tenant in the platform. When you log in to the platform, you log into your organization's tenancy. When you set up a stage, an environment is created for testing and executing the Integrations in the production environment. You can also schedule the Integrations to be executed in a specific stage.

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

You can create or delete stages only in a particular order. By default, every user gets a Development Stage. In the Development Stage, you can create, update, delete, or view Integrations. 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.

To add a new stage, click Add New Stage.