Best practices for testing before upgrade?

[pfaffman (Jay Pfaffman)]

@rahim123

Is there an easier method that’s not occurring to me?

No. That’s what you do.

Set up a staging server

There are several tricks that can help when you are setting up a staging server. What is a staging server? A staging server is essentially a clone of a production site. It also resides on a server, and functions identically. It runs inside a Docker container, just as a normal Discourse site does. It exists to give you a place to try risky things out, or to trial things that you cannot easily hide from your users. It is very useful for trialling adverts using the Discourse Advertising Plugin (A…