Unable to promote to dev

[chrislovecnm]

I am trying to run jx promote command I am getting error: failed to lazy load the EnvironmentContext: no dev environment in namespace foo.

Do a need unique environments for each namespace I am deploying applications to? Do I need to edit jx requirements to add a different namespace, or the .jx/gitops/source-config.yaml file?

Some examples or more info is appreciated. I read through the documentation for jx promote, and I am confused a bit by the helmfile examples as well, and I am wondering if using a helmfile or other configuration would help.

I am running

jx promote -e dev -n apps --timeout 1h --no-poll --interactive -a jx-python-demo -v 0.0.2

My environments (which I think I need to change)

$ k get environments.jenkins.io
NAME         NAMESPACE       KIND          PROMOTION   ORDER   GIT URL                                          GIT BRANCH
demo         jx-demo         Permanent     Manual      500     https://gitlab.com/foo/foo-demo.git    master
dev          jx              Development   Never               https://gitlab.com/foo/foo-dev.git     master
production   jx-production   Permanent     Manual      500     https://gitlab.com/foo/foo-prod.git    master
staging      jx-staging      Permanent     Manual      100     https://gitlab.com/foo/foo.git   master

Can I run different environments off of the same repo? Also dev, demo, stage and production are on different clusters.

[chrislovecnm]

So the problem is that you are not allowed to promote to dev. Also we are keying off of the string named dev, which could cause problems.

jx-promote/pkg/promote/promote.go

Lines 460 to 462 in d259490

	func envIsPermanent(env *jxcore.EnvironmentConfig) bool {
	return env.Key != "dev"
	}

Are there any reasons that I should not deploy to dev?

[chrislovecnm]

To get around this I added another environment on the same cluster. I would recommend documenting this.