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Promote services

When working across environments—like development, staging, and production—you often need to reuse or align service configurations. Nullplatform offers tools to help you:

  • Identify differences between services
  • Reuse known-good configurations
  • Promote or synchronize changes safely

Compare services across environments​

Use this to inspect the differences between two service instances. The comparison returns structured JSON patches that highlight which attributes were added, removed, or changed.

This helps you:

  • Spot differences between environments
  • Review configuration changes before syncing or promoting

Create services based on existing ones​

Use this when you need to set up a new service based on the configuration of an existing one—great for teams working across multiple environments, countries, or dimensions.

The UI pre-fills a form with values from the original service so you can make minor adjustments and submit the new one.

Sync one service with another​

Use this when you want to apply specific changes from one service to another. It’s ideal for:

  • Promoting updated configurations from one environment to another (e.g., dev → staging)
  • Rolling back to a previous version
  • Keeping existing services aligned without recreating them

You’ll get a visual diff and can choose exactly which fields to update.

Fields that cannot be copied​

Some fields—like account IDs or domains—are excluded from create and sync flows to prevent invalid configurations. These are marked in the spec as "comparable": false and skipped automatically.

Schema compatibility​

Creating or syncing a service requires compatible schemas between the service and its action spec. If you’re using use_default_actions: true, this is handled for you.

What's next​

Here’s where you can go from here, depending on what you need to do: