Velocity Environments

The running version, or instance, of your application. An environment can span both local and cloud-hosted resources, and it contains the various services that make up your application.
Velocity presents a visual representation of your environment blueprint. 
Environment Groups
Environment Groups enable you to organize your services into logical groups, which can make environment creation and management easier.
Creating Environment Groups
To create a new Environment Group: 
1.Open the Velocity Account Settings Dashboard 
2.Click the 'Create new group' button and enter a unique Group Name. 
3.Select the services you wish to add to your group. 
Adding an Environment Group
Once you've added the services you want to group, select Add, and it will create a new group. 
Editing Environment Groups
Open the Velocity Account Settings Dashboard 
Hover your mouse over the Environment Group you want to edit 
Click the pencil icon. This will enable you to add and delete services that are a part of this group as well as edit the existing group name.
Once changes have been they can be saved by selecting Apply. 
Deleting Environment Groups
Open the Velocity Account Settings Dashboard 
Hover your mouse over the Environment Group you want to delete 
Click the delete icon and confirm deleting the group.
Using Environment Groups
Velocity Environment Groups can be viewed and accessed using the velocity CLI.
Listing Environment Groups
You can list all existing Environment Groups by using the following CLI command:
veloctl env list-groups
Creating an environment using Environment Groups
You can create a new environment by using the --group <groupName> flag when using the velocity CLI create command. The --group flag specifies a group of services that will be included in the environment from the Environment Groups. 
Please note that you can use either --group or the shorthand -g option flags. 
veloctl env create [environment-name] --group <groupName>
Updating an existing environment using Environment Groups
You can create a new environment by using the --group <groupName> flag when using the velocity CLI update command. The --group flag specifies a group of services that will be included in the environment from the Environment Groups. 
Please note that you can use either --group or the shorthand -g option flags. 
veloctl env update [environment-name] -g <groupName>

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