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Clarify what is meant by hosts in environments doc
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MrCreosote committed Feb 22, 2024
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# Authentication service environments

The auth service can support multiple environments, allowing it to service multiple hosts.
The auth service can support multiple environments, allowing it to service multiple domains -
for a KBase example, `narrative.kbase.us`, `appdev.kbase.us`, and `narrative-dev.kbase.us`
are all served by the same auth service. This allows sharing user accounts and tokens between
environments and deploying alternate versions of UIs running on the same backend.

Alternate environments only affect the account login and linking flows and are otherwise
not relevant to the auth system once a login or account link is complete. For example,
a service contacting the auth service to validate a login token does not need to concern
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