Cloning to sub-production environments

[mauricio23]

Greetings!

I'm looking to see the best practice when cloning over sub-production environments. I've seen different opinions on this and looking for the best option.

In the first example here, I see people say use Production as the base and clone directly to the sub-environments like this:

However, some users say we should daisy chain like this:

Which method is the best way to go about this?

[sachin_namjoshi]

Best would be first approach since production will be your source and all other instances will be child instances.

Please follow below for useful information regarding cloning

What is Cloning, How it Works & Best Practices

Regards,

Sachin

[corbinhicks]

Is it best practice to have at least 3 instances? Production, Dev and Test.   I'm asking because it pertains to both our upcoming system clones and also our planned upgrade from Helsinki to Jakarta.

[mauricio23]

The number of instances depends on the complexity of your development effort.

I would recommend at least 3. If you have multiple development streams happening and touching multiple modules, you may want to consider up to 6 instances.