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title: "How To Set Up a Staging Environment on Heroku in 3 Easy Steps"
url: https://daily.dev/posts/how-to-set-up-a-staging-environment-on-heroku-in-3-easy-steps-b09rmdwva
source_url: https://www.heroku.com/blog/how-to-set-up-staging-environment-3-easy-steps
type: article
source: "Heroku"
published: 2026-07-16T18:39:39.253Z
updated: 2026-07-16T18:39:59.786Z
tags: ["cicd", "heroku"]
reading_time: 8
upvotes: 1
comments: 1
language: en
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# How To Set Up a Staging Environment on Heroku in 3 Easy Steps

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## Summary

A step-by-step guide to setting up a staging environment on Heroku using Pipelines. Covers creating a pipeline and staging app, isolating configuration variables and databases following Twelve-Factor principles (Factors III, IV, and V), and promoting immutable slugs to production with a single click or CLI command. Includes guidance on database strategies (fresh schema from migrations vs. copying production data), Review Apps for PR-based testing, and a validation checklist to confirm proper environment separation.

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