I want to make sure my understanding of environments is right. For environment specific configs it's best to define those under that specific environment in the

meltano.yml

file but if the config is the same across environments I can define it under

plugins

and it will be shared across all environments. Is my understanding of this correct?

If you mean edit the lock files in

plugins

that's not a great idea. They are designed to be updated upstream by the maintainers. They are often delivered with configuration suitable for all projects and environments.

No I mean define the config under the plugins in the

melano.yml

it's just not nested under any env

Ah, then yes. Plugins section of meltano.yml is ok. Another option for configuration across all environments is to use

inherit_from

- https://docs.meltano.com/guide/plugin-management/#plugin-inheritance.

Thank you