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Understand the environments in DigiCert ONE

An environment is an isolated workspace within your DigiCert ONE account. Each environment has its own products, configurations, integrations, and certificate workflows.

Every environment belongs to a specific region and has an environment type, such as Production or Demo. You can create multiple environments to support different operational, geographic, or testing requirements.

Products, licenses, and configurations in one environment are independent of those in another environment. Enabling the same product in production and demo, two production environments one with United States data residency and another for Europe creates separate environment-specific configurations.

DigiCert account
│
├── Environment: Production (US)
│   │
│   ├── Trust sources
│   │   ├── CertCentral
│   │   │   └── Issues publicly trusted certificates
│   │   └── Private CA
│   │       └── Issues privately trusted certificates
│   │
│   └── Products
│       ├── Software Trust
│       ├── Trust Lifecycle
│       ├── Content Trust
│       └── DigiCert DNS
│
└── Environment: Demo (US)
    │
    ├── Trust sources
    │   └── Private CA
    │       └── Issues privately trusted certificates
    │
    └── Products
        ├── Software Trust
        └── Trust Lifecycle

Why organizations use multiple environments

You can use environments to separate:

  • Production workflows from testing or demonstration workflows

  • Different data-residency or regional requirements

  • Product configurations that must remain operationally isolated

  • Different sets of licenses, integrations, and certificate workflows

Users continue to sign in to the same DigiCert account. Their permissions determine which environments they can access.

ヒント

An environment is not a separate login or customer account. It is an isolated workspace within your existing DigiCert account.

Environment regions

Production regions

  • Australia (AU)

  • India (IN)

  • Japan (JP)

  • Netherlands (NL)

  • Switzerland (CH)

  • United States (US)

    注記

    The Oracle Cloud environment is an alternative production deployment in the United States. It is not a separate geographic region and is available only to organizations provisioned to use it.

Demo regions

  • Japan (JP)

  • Netherlands (NL)

  • Switzerland (CH)

  • United States (US)

Production and Demo environments

Production environment

A production environment supports live operational workflows in supported regions. Depending on your configuration, it can use:

  • CertCentral for publicly trusted certificates

  • DigiCert Private CA for privately trusted certificates

  • One or more DigiCert products

Demo environment

A demo environment is used for testing, evaluation, or non-production workflows in supported regions. In the environment model described here, demo workflows use DigiCert Private CA for private trust rather than requesting publicly trusted certificates from CertCentral.

How many components can an environment have?

An environment can have:

  • One configuration of each enabled product

  • One configuration of DigiCert Private CA

  • Multiple CertCentral instances

The same CertCentral instance can be connected to more than one production environment. This makes CertCentral different from products and Private CA which are environment-bound.