# Switch, copy and promote environments

Every project has its own production, custom and preview environments, with a switcher in the header and simpler dialogs for new services.

Canonical URL: https://unbroker.cloud/changelog/2026-10-14-environment-switcher
Published: 2026-10-14
Tags: Apps, Dashboard

## Related reading

- [Cloud Apps](https://unbroker.cloud/deploy)
- [Deployment guides](https://unbroker.cloud/guides)

The project header now reads **Project / environment**, with a dropdown for each. Switch environment, duplicate the current one, start an empty one or delete it without leaving the board. The selected environment is part of the URL, so a link opens the same view for a teammate.

Environments are colored at a glance: green for production, amber for qa, staging and dev, and gray for the rest. The projects list shows one card per project, with its environments as badges.

#### Copy from any environment

A new environment can copy any existing one, not only production, or start empty. Copies keep track of where each service came from, so promoting a staging environment still updates the right production services. PR previews are now preview environments of their project instead of separate projects.

#### Simpler dialogs for new services

**New service** opens a menu that picks the source first. The form that follows asks for what you want to deploy, then a name, and folds every setting with a default into a section with a one-line summary. Database and Beacon dialogs use the same compact pickers, and a self-hosted database volume starts at 1 GB.

Deleting a project removes its services and environments in one step. Linked managed databases and Beacon projects are only unlinked.