Create a sandbox
In this lesson, you will create a development environment sandbox that you will use for the rest of the tutorial.
Sandboxes provide isolated environments where you can try out functionality without mixing resources and data with your Production environment. For more details, see the sandboxes documentation.
Data Architects and Data Engineers will need to create sandboxes outside of this tutorial.
Before you begin the exercises, watch this short video to learn more about sandboxes:
Permissions required
In the Configure Permissions lesson, you set up all the access controls required to complete this lesson.
Create a Sandbox
Let鈥檚 create a sandbox:
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Log into the interface
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Go to Sandboxes in the left navigation
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Select Create sandbox on the top right
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Select Development as the Type
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Name your sandbox
luma-tutorial(consider adding your name to the end) -
Title your tutorial
Luma Tutorial(consider adding your name to the end) -
Select the Create button
note note NOTE While you could use any arbitrary values for your sandbox name and title, sticking to the values suggested is recommended as we will refer to these labels throughout the tutorial. If there are multiple people at your organization completing this tutorial, consider adding your name at the end of the sandbox title and name, for example luma-tutorial-ignatiusjreilly.
Sandboxes take approximately 30 seconds to create, during which time a 鈥淐reating鈥 status displays. When the sandbox is fully created, it shows as 鈥淎ctive鈥:
Wait until your sandbox is 鈥淎ctive鈥 before continuing to the next exercise.
Add the new sandbox to the role
Once the sandbox is active, you must include it in your role in order to use it. To add it to your role (requires System Admin or Product Admin privileges):
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Go to the Permissions screen
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Open the
Luma Tutorial Platformrole -
Optionally remove the
Prodsandbox from the role -
Add the
Luma Tutorialsandbox -
Select Save
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On the Sandboxes row, select Edit
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Reload (or Shift-reload) the page and you should now either be in the
Luma Tutorialsandbox or it should appear in your sandbox dropdown -
Switch to the
Luma Tutorialsandbox if you aren鈥檛 already in it
Great, you鈥檝e created your sandbox and are ready to Set up Developer Console and Postman!