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+var VALID_DEPLOY_TARGETS = [ //update these to match what you call your deployment targets
+  'dev',
+  'qa',
+  'prod'
+];
+
+module.exports = function(deployTarget) {
+  var ENV = {
+    build: {},
+    redis: {
+      allowOverwrite: true,
+      keyPrefix: 'travis:index'
+    },
+    s3: {
+      prefix: 'travis',
+      bucket: 'travis-web-production-next',
+      region: 'eu-west-1'
+    }
+  };
+  if (VALID_DEPLOY_TARGETS.indexOf(deployTarget) === -1) {
+    throw new Error('Invalid deployTarget ' + deployTarget);
+  }
+
+  if (deployTarget === 'dev') {
+    ENV.build.environment = 'development';
+    ENV.redis.url = process.env.REDIS_URL;
+    ENV.plugins = ['build', 'redis']; // only care about deploying index.html into redis in dev
+  }
+
+  if (deployTarget === 'qa' || deployTarget === 'prod') {
+    ENV.build.environment = 'production';
+    ENV.s3.accessKeyId = process.env.AWS_KEY;
+    ENV.s3.secretAccessKey = process.env.AWS_SECRET;
+  }
+
+  if (deployTarget === 'qa') {
+    ENV.redis.url = process.env.QA_REDIS_URL;
+  }
+
+  if (deployTarget === 'prod') {
+    ENV.redis.url = process.env.REDIS_URL;
+  }
+
+  return ENV;
+
+  /* Note: a synchronous return is shown above, but ember-cli-deploy
+   * does support returning a promise, in case you need to get any of
+   * your configuration asynchronously. e.g.
+   *
+   *    var Promise = require('ember-cli/lib/ext/promise');
+   *    return new Promise(function(resolve, reject){
+   *      var exec = require('child_process').exec;
+   *      var command = 'heroku config:get REDISTOGO_URL --app my-app-' + deployTarget;
+   *      exec(command, function (error, stdout, stderr) {
+   *        ENV.redis.url = stdout.replace(/\n/, '').replace(/\/\/redistogo:/, '//:');
+   *        if (error) {
+   *          reject(error);
+   *        } else {
+   *          resolve(ENV);
+   *        }
+   *      });
+   *    });
+   *
+   */
+}