## Setting up a Fabric Environment

The developer tools provide an environment for developing and debugging fabric applications. Use the developer tools to build a mock-up of your actual fabric into which you can deploy your application to test and debug it.

## Overview

To set up a fabric environment, you must have access to an existing fabric.

Setting up a fabric environment involves several basic steps:

- Providing the details for connecting to an existing fabric

- Connecting to the fabric

- Creating the containers that will host the various components of your distributed integration application

- Assigning each container one or more profiles, which provision containers by deploying and installing specified applications.

| Note
For cloud applications, unless the cloud already has a fabric registry agent running on it, you must create one yourself, before you can include it to your fabric environment. For details, see Creating a Fabric in the Cloud.

## Opening the fabric perspective

To set up a fabric environment, you must switch to the Fuse Fabric perspective, by selecting Window > Open Perspective > Fuse Fabric, or clicking in the Perspectives tab, and selecting Fuse Fabric.

## Related topics

Specifying and Connecting to a Fabric