# How To Set Up a Staging Environment on Heroku in 3 Easy Steps

DevFeed: [How To Set Up a Staging Environment on Heroku in 3 Easy Steps](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/how-to-set-up-a-staging-environment-on-heroku-in-3-easy-steps-26449.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://www.heroku.com/blog/how-to-set-up-staging-environment-3-easy-steps/>)

Author: Andy Smith

Published: 2026-07-16T18:23:58Z

Content type: tutorial

Language: en

Sources: [Heroku](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/heroku.md>)

Topics: [Heroku](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/heroku.md>), [Deployment](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/deployment.md>), [Continuous Delivery (CD)](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/continuous-delivery.md>), [Testing](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/testing.md>), [pull-requests](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/pull-requests.md>), [Git](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/git.md>), [GitHub](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/github.md>)

Tags: [continuous-delivery](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/continuous-delivery.md>), [continuous-deployment](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/continuous-deployment.md>), [deployment](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/deployment.md>), [engineering](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/engineering.md>), [github](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/github.md>), [heroku](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/heroku.md>), [heroku-pipelines](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/heroku-pipelines.md>), [how-to](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/how-to.md>), [pull-requests](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/pull-requests.md>), [testing](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/testing.md>)

## AI overview

A tutorial explains how to create a staging environment on Heroku by separating configuration and databases, grouping applications in Heroku Pipelines, and promoting tested compiled slugs to production. It also covers continuous delivery, disabling automatic deployment during setup, and optional Review Apps for pull requests.

## Source excerpt

Moving fast should not mean breaking things for your users. While testing on localhost is a good start, you need a near identical replica of production to catch any bugs before your code goes live. That is where a staging environment comes in. Heroku pipelines handle the infrastructure layout for you, keeping your deployment workflow clean and automated. The post How To Set Up a Staging Environment on Heroku in 3 Easy Steps appeared first on Heroku.