As a Geoconnex maintainer, I'd like to provide multiple deployment environments so that I can safely validates changes to components without disrupting expectations of service

[adplincinst]

As Geoconnex Publishers and Users increase over time, the implications of changes that may have adverse affects becomes more critical. A best practices approach to managing changes to the 'production' system over time is to have multiple environments where more volatile changes that may modify behavior and/or performance can occur.