I was recently asked how do you use the Deployment Pipelines for Dev/Test/Prod if you already have a production workspace. What happened to this user when they created the Deployment Pipeline, the existing workspace was select for Development and then Test was created and the Workspace was named “<workspace name> [Test]”.

This means if you create the production workspace, its name becomes the dev workspace name with (Production) added.

So, instead of selecting Development for the existing workspace, select Production. This keeps the name the same, without the suffix.

Then, in the ellipsis for the Production workspace in the Deployment Pipeline, there is a menu choice for ‘Deploy to previous stage’. This will create the Test workspace. The same can be done for the Test to deploy to Development.

BINGO!!! The naming convention changes for Dev and Test, but production stays the same.