How to create multi environment DB's with Firestore

Question

I\'ve been looking at how to create multiple Firestore instances in Firebase, I need different Db\'s for prod, staging and development. I read the documentation and seems th

Answer 1

The safest way is to create a new google cloud project. You can export your current firestore database to your new project if needed.

Step by step:

1. Backup your current database by exporting all your documents into a bucket: https://firebase.google.com/docs/firestore/manage-data/export-import

   gcloud beta firestore export gs://[BUCKET_NAME]

2. Create a new project -> https://cloud.google.com/resource-manager/docs/creating-managing-projects

3. In the dashboard, select Firestore into your new project and create an empty database

4. In the dashboard, go to your BACKUP_BUCKET and add your new project service account in the permission tab

5. Switch project to your new project gcloud config set project 'new-project'

6. Then export your data gcloud beta firestore import gs://[BUCKET_NAME]/[EXPORT_PREFIX]/ The EXPORT_PREFIX being the name of the folder created in your bucket.

I use this method to have clearly separated 'preprod' and 'production' environments (the team can access and synchronize with production without having access to the production environment codebase and configuration).