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> Environments enable you to deploy model configurations and experiments, making them accessible via API, while also maintaining a streamlined production workflow.

[Environments](/docs/explanation/environments) are a tagging system for deploying Prompts. They enable you to deploy maintain a streamlined deployment workflow and keep track of different versions of Prompts.

### Prerequisites

* You already have a Prompt — if not, please follow our [Prompt creation](/docs/development/guides/create-prompt) guide first.

To deploy a version to an environment:

### Navigate to the **Dashboard** of your Prompt

### Click the dropdown menu of the environment.

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### Click the **Change deployment** button

### Select a version

Choose the version you want to deploy from the list of available versions.

![](/docs/_fern-img/7f42412ca6100971d9ffae49bb5f4f3f65e723ce41ebc2afd7dfc85e825cb002.webp)

### Click the **Deploy** button.