Creating an Environment

Environments in sfops is tied to GitHub Environments (https://docs.github.com/en/actions/deployment/targeting-different-environments/using-environments-for-deployment) with additional metadata such as described below

Name	Type	Purpose
SBXNAME	variable : string	(Optional) Stores the name of the sandbox associated with the environment. If SB_SFDX_AUTH_URL is not provided use, the name to handle authentication. Read more here
TESTRUN	variable : boolean	Use this environment for daily full test tuns by a scheduled sfops workflow
TYPE	variable : string	Denotes the type of the environment, an environment could be one of 'development', 'test' or 'release'
SB_SFDX_AUTH_URL	secret : string	Auth URL to the environment, Read here on how to generate one
BRANCH	variable:string	Required for test and snapshot environments. This variable denote the branch which environment is associated with.

Environments added to GitHub will be displayed in Environment Snapshot in sfops Dev Central as shown below

Environments can be created from dev central by using the add icon in each of the category. One could also use the 'Request a new environment', from the service catalogue directly, where you could fill in the details, and the environment gets created. Please note the sandbox has to be created previously before triggering the request.