Staging Environment

Pre-production environment for testing.

Purpose

• Integration testing
• Performance testing
• Pre-release validation
• Training and demos

Access

Base URL: provided per deployment

Configuration

SDK

import { requestServiceToken } from "@qnsp/auth-sdk";
import { VaultClient } from "@qnsp/vault-sdk";

const baseUrl = process.env["QNSP_BASE_URL"] ?? "";
const token = await requestServiceToken({
  authServiceUrl: baseUrl,
  serviceId: process.env["QNSP_SERVICE_ID"] ?? "",
  serviceSecret: process.env["QNSP_SERVICE_SECRET"] ?? "",
  audience: "internal-service",
});
if (!token) {
  throw new Error("Failed to obtain service token");
}

const vault = new VaultClient({ baseUrl, apiKey: token.accessToken });
await vault.createSecret({ tenantId: "<tenant_uuid>", name: "example-secret", payload: "<base64_payload>" });

CLI

export QNSP_EDGE_GATEWAY_URL=<staging_base_url>
export QNSP_TENANT_ID=<tenant_uuid>
export QNSP_SERVICE_ID=<service_id>
export QNSP_SERVICE_SECRET=<service_secret>

Characteristics

Similar to production

• Same API versions
• Same authentication
• Same rate limits (reduced)
• Real HSM (shared)

Differences from production

• Separate data
• Lower SLAs
• More frequent updates
• Test data allowed

Data management

• Data reset weekly (Sundays)
• No production data allowed
• Test fixtures available

Rate limits

Staging has reduced limits:

Endpoint	Production	Staging
Auth	100/s	10/s
KMS	50/s	5/s
Vault	50/s	5/s

Monitoring

Staging telemetry endpoints are provided separately per deployment.