Movig snapshot from PROD environment to STAGING

General considerations when taking production snapshot and creating lower environements

1. Update database/datasource connection strings to stageing environment
2. Any other application confiugrations specific to staging environment
3. Check if production data can be exposed to staging environment, if not delete production data and initialize with dummy data
4. Remove production Users from staging environment
5. For websites, create a dedicated host names for staging and share the same to team
6. If you are using ci/cd pipeline ensure the dev branch code gets published to dev, master branch to stage and production.
7. You can control dev team from publishing to production by controlling access in ci/cd pipeline with branch policies. Only when Pull request is raised and merged to master the changes will be published to stage or production.