Environment expiration
How to determine and modify the life span of an ephemeral environment.
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How to determine and modify the life span of an ephemeral environment.
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Permanent environments live on forever, but ephemeral environments are meant to be temporary. By default, ephemeral environments will last for 3 days in Release. If you need your environments to last longer, you can upgrade to a Premium plan and gain access to permanent environments or override the default expiration to extend the life span of an environment.
For all plans, you can extend the life of an environment by clicking the Actions dropdown and selecting Extend on the Environment Details screen, which will reset the expiration for up to 7 days. Release will send you a notification email 24 hours before your environment expires to notify you that it will expire.
However, we don't recommend this for most customers, as your clusters or environment quotas can quickly become filled with stale environments. Instead, you can leave this setting on and specify how many days an ephemeral environment will last before it is destroyed. Most customers find that 7-14 days is a good ephemeral environment life span for retention and space.
With a Premium plan, you have greater control over ephemeral environment expiration. In the global Account Settings, you can switch the feature to "Off", which makes your ephemeral environments long-lived spaces that need to be manually deleted.
