Developer Cloud Environment

Overview

In your Shopware account, you have a powerful tool that allows you to create your own cloud development environment. This environment is intended for testing and in-house development and offers you a safe space to create and refine apps and themes.
The development environment has limited capacity and is not comparable to fully paid cloud shops. It is intended exclusively for development and testing purposes.  

The developer cloud environment is intended exclusively for app development. This means that no extensions from the Shopware Store can be installed. The only form of extension that can be uploaded by you are apps and app system-based themes

Your development environment is created for 30 days. This period cannot be extended. At the end of the 30 days, the development environment is automatically deleted and you can create a new development environment.
Each user can only operate one Developer Cloud Environment at a time.

Creating a cloud development environment

To create a developer cloud environment, you need an account at account.shopware.com. A company affiliation is not required. On the home page of the Shopware account, you will find the button to create the cloud developer environment in the "More functions in the account" section.

After you have initiated the creation of the development environment, it takes a few minutes for it to be created in the background.  

From now on, the tile provides you with information about the remaining runtime of the environment, whether it is still live and also provides you with the URLs for the administration and the storefront.

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If a particular development environment is experiencing excessive load (e.g. from bulk imports or compute-intensive calculations), we can temporarily shut it down to avoid impacting the performance of other developer cloud environments using the same resources and infrastructure.

Next Steps

After you have created your cloud development environment, you can log into the Shopware Administration by using the “Administration” link in the "Your Developer Cloud environment"-tile. Here you will receive a special version of the Shopware admin dashboard with further information about your next steps and how to get started with app development.   

You can find all information about app development for Shopware here.