# Streamline Your Workflow: Announcing Environment Support for DigitalOcean App Platform

DevFeed: [Streamline Your Workflow: Announcing Environment Support for DigitalOcean App Platform](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/streamline-your-workflow-announcing-environment-support-for-digitalocean-app-platform-19877.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://www.digitalocean.com/blog/environment-support-app-platform>)

Author: Bikram Gupta

Published: 2025-11-25T16:06:22Z

Content type: release

Language: en

Sources: [DigitalOcean](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/digitalocean.md>)

Topics: [Digital Ocean](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/digital-ocean.md>), [App](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/app.md>), [Command-line interface](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/cli.md>), [dashboards](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/dashboards.md>)

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## AI overview

DigitalOcean announces environment support for App Platform through DigitalOcean Projects, allowing projects to be labeled Development, Staging, or Production and apps to be assigned to them. The article also introduces App Cloning and management through the control panel and CLI.

## Source excerpt

As developers, we love building, but we also know that as an application portfolio grows, managing it gets complicated. The line between your production services, your staging environment, and your new feature-branch deployments can blur. Keeping track of which app serves which purpose and quickly identifying all your "production" apps at a glance becomes a significant organizational challenge. We're excited to announce a powerful new way to manage this complexity: Environment Support for DigitalOcean App Platform, powered by DigitalOcean Projects. We're also introducing App Cloning, a new feature to replicate your apps in just a few clicks. This feature allows you to explicitly tag your resource groups (Projects) with a specific environment, such as Development, Staging, or Production and then assign your App Platform apps to those projects. This gives you a high-level, filterable view of your entire application landscape, right from the control panel and via the CLI. The Core Concept The logic is simple but effective: A Project is a "bucket" for your resources. You can group Droplets, Load Balancers, Databases, and App Platform Apps into a single Project. A Project can now be assigned an environment. This flag formally designates that project's purpose. An App Platform App is assigned to a Project. By combining these, you can now associate an app with an environment, enabling clearer organization, better cost management, and more robust scripting and automation. Configuring Environments in the UI You can manage all of this directly from the DigitalOcean Control Panel. When you create a new project (Click "New Project" from the main dashboard), you'll see a new "Environment" dropdown. Here, you can select Development, Staging, or Production to define the project's role. Once your project is created, simply select it during the App Platform app creation wizard. All resources for that app will now be associated with your environment-tagged project. Managing Environme