Environments and deployment strategy

This section focuses on the Environment Strategy for an Enterprise deployment of Talend. Typically an Enterprise deployment of Talend will include:

• Multiple user personas, each with tools suited to their requirements, such as Data Preparation for a business user, or Talend Studio for a data engineer
• Artifacts developed in Talend Studio requiring a full Enterprise Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), including Continuous Integration and Continous Delivery (CI/CD)
• Multiple teams working on multiple projects in parallel
• High Availability and Load Balancing
• Environment specific security / access

For Enterprise deployments, Talend recommends a four environment strategy, coupled with an automated approach to building / testing and deployment:

Environment Strategy

A typical Enterprise deployment of Talend should have four environments: development, test, pre-production and production.

Development: The environment where developers build and unit test their artifacts.

Test: Integration testing and ensuring that no dependencies to the development environment have been left in by accident - it should not include high availability so testing can focus on testing the logic rather than environment testing.

Pre-Production: An environment that should be as close a mirror of production as possible - used for high availability testing, production patch testing, performance testing and user acceptance testing.

Production: The production environment.

Talend recommends the use of Continuous Integration / Continuous deployment techniques instead of manual deployments. For more information, see Building and deploying section of the Talend Software Development Life Cycle Best Practices Guide.