Playground
The Defang Playground is a free tier that allows you to experiment with Defang. The Playground is a shared environment that should not be used to run production workloads. The Playground is a great way to get started with Defang using "1-click deploy" or to experiment with the Defang CLI.
This page highlights architectural considerations when deploying to the Playground and any differences you might encounter when deploying to the Playground versus deploying to your own cloud account.
The Playground allows only 1 deployed project at a time. Use the CLI defang down to tear down a project before deploying a new one.
Overview
Overall, the Defang Playground is very similar to deploying to your own cloud account. The Playground runs on a Defang-managed AWS account, so you can expect it to work similarly to deploying to AWS.
Managed services
In essence, the Playground does not support any managed storage services, ie. x-defang-postgres and x-defang-redis are ignored when deploying to the Playground. You can however run both postgres and redis as regular container services for testing purposes.