Vercel

Recently, I've been part of looking at a rescue mission for a failed XM Cloud build and as part of doing a review of their solution, there were some solution design and configuration pieces which stood out as potential knowledge gaps for first-timers which I thought would make a good topic for an article.

If you're using your own DNS and Firewall in front of Vercel, this article looks at how you can effectively secure your non-production environments so that they're only accessible from within your organisation's network.

Managing multiple heads means you have multiple env variable files and need to have environment-specific values for a lot of these as you move between environments. Let's also assume you want to have 3 seperate environments on top of your own local development environment