# Environment Configurations

Before you can deploy a pipeline in Salus, you need to configure an **environment**. Environments allow you to separate **testing**, **staging**, and **production** contexts, each with its own data sources, secrets, runtime settings, and access controls.

## Environments

**Environments** in Salus are isolated contexts where pipelines are deployed and executed. Each environment has its own **data connections**, **runtime settings**, **secrets**, and **access controls**, allowing teams to safely test, stage, and run pipelines across different stages of development.

Think of environments as containers for running your pipelines under specific conditions, so that what happens in development doesn’t affect production.

Each environment also chooses its **region** when it’s created, so one organization can run environments across several regions and clouds at once.

By default, each workspace is provided with a single environment named **Production**.

![The Create environment dialog with a name field and a region selector showing the organization default.](https://salus.cloud/docs-assets/env-create-region.webp)

Creating an environment and choosing its region

## Environments and configurations

An environment is shared across a workspace; each project then gets its own **configuration** for that environment — the branch or tag it deploys, the compute it runs on, its variables and its networking. So “delete a configuration” and “delete an environment” are different acts, with very different blast radius.

## In this section

-   [Configure an environment](https://salus.cloud/docs/deployments/environment-configurations/configuring/) — region, deployment strategy, compute and networking.
-   [Environment variables](https://salus.cloud/docs/deployments/environment-configurations/variables/) — runtime and build-time values, secrets, files, and how they resolve.
-   [Manage and delete](https://salus.cloud/docs/deployments/environment-configurations/managing/) — change the deployment strategy, delete a configuration, delete an environment.