change 'stage' to 'staging', as it a much more common term for a pre-production environment, and there are already many references to 'staging' appearing in the ansible code and docs, so let's be consistent

docsite/rst/playbooks_best_practices.rst

@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@ Directory Layout
 The top level of the directory would contain files and directories like so::
 
     production                # inventory file for production servers
-    stage                     # inventory file for stage environment 
+    staging                   # inventory file for staging environment 
 
     group_vars/
        group1                 # here we assign variables to particular groups
@@ -78,9 +78,9 @@ If you are using a cloud provider, you should not be managing your inventory in
 This does not just apply to clouds -- If you have another system maintaining a canonical list of systems
 in your infrastructure, usage of dynamic inventory is a great idea in general.
 
-.. _stage_vs_prod:
+.. _staging_vs_prod:
 
-How to Differentiate  Stage vs Production
+How to Differentiate  Staging vs Production
 `````````````````````````````````````````
 
 If managing static inventory, it is frequently asked how to differentiate different types of environments.  The following example
@@ -285,14 +285,14 @@ all the time -- you can have situational plays that you use at different times a
 Ansible allows you to deploy and configure using the same tool, so you would likely reuse groups and just
 keep the OS configuration in separate playbooks from the app deployment.
 
-.. _stage_vs_production:
+.. _staging_vs_production:
 
-Stage vs Production
+Staging vs Production
 +++++++++++++++++++
 
-As also mentioned above, a good way to keep your stage (or testing) and production environments separate is to use a separate inventory file for stage and production.   This way you pick with -i what you are targeting.  Keeping them all in one file can lead to surprises!
+As also mentioned above, a good way to keep your staging (or testing) and production environments separate is to use a separate inventory file for staging and production.   This way you pick with -i what you are targeting.  Keeping them all in one file can lead to surprises!
 
-Testing things in a stage environment before trying in production is always a great idea.  Your environments need not be the same
+Testing things in a staging environment before trying in production is always a great idea.  Your environments need not be the same
 size and you can use group variables to control the differences between those environments.
 
 .. _rolling_update:

docsite/rst/test_strategies.rst

@@ -114,14 +114,14 @@ Testing Lifecycle
 
 If writing some degree of basic validation of your application into your playbooks, they will run every time you deploy.
 
-As such, deploying into a local development VM and a stage environment will both validate that things are according to plan
+As such, deploying into a local development VM and a staging environment will both validate that things are according to plan
 ahead of your production deploy.
 
 Your workflow may be something like this::
 
     - Use the same playbook all the time with embedded tests in development
-    - Use the playbook to deploy to a stage environment (with the same playbooks) that simulates production
-    - Run an integration test battery written by your QA team against stage
+    - Use the playbook to deploy to a staging environment (with the same playbooks) that simulates production
+    - Run an integration test battery written by your QA team against staging
     - Deploy to production, with the same integrated tests.
 
 Something like an integration test battery should be written by your QA team if you are a production webservice.  This would include
@@ -213,7 +213,7 @@ If desired, the above techniques may be extended to enable continuous deployment
 The workflow may look like this::
 
     - Write and use automation to deploy local development VMs
-    - Have a CI system like Jenkins deploy to a stage environment on every code change
+    - Have a CI system like Jenkins deploy to a staging environment on every code change
     - The deploy job calls testing scripts to pass/fail a build on every deploy
     - If the deploy job succeeds, it runs the same deploy playbook against production inventory
 
@@ -241,7 +241,7 @@ as part of a Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery pipeline, as is covered
 
 The focus should not be on infrastructure testing, but on application testing, so we strongly encourage getting together with your
 QA team and ask what sort of tests would make sense to run every time you deploy development VMs, and which sort of tests they would like
-to run against the stage environment on every deploy.  Obviously at the development stage, unit tests are great too.  But don't unit
+to run against the staging environment on every deploy.  Obviously at the development stage, unit tests are great too.  But don't unit
 test your playbook.  Ansible describes states of resources declaratively, so you don't have to.  If there are cases where you want
 to be sure of something though, that's great, and things like stat/assert are great go-to modules for that purpose.
 

plugins/inventory/ec2.ini

@@ -91,10 +91,10 @@ group_by_rds_engine = True
 group_by_rds_parameter_group = True
 
 # If you only want to include hosts that match a certain regular expression
-# pattern_include = stage-*
+# pattern_include = staging-*
 
 # If you want to exclude any hosts that match a certain regular expression
-# pattern_exclude = stage-*
+# pattern_exclude = staging-*
 
 # Instance filters can be used to control which instances are retrieved for
 # inventory. For the full list of possible filters, please read the EC2 API
@@ -102,14 +102,14 @@ group_by_rds_parameter_group = True
 # Filters are key/value pairs separated by '=', to list multiple filters use
 # a list separated by commas. See examples below.
 
-# Retrieve only instances with (key=value) env=stage tag
-# instance_filters = tag:env=stage
+# Retrieve only instances with (key=value) env=staging tag
+# instance_filters = tag:env=staging
 
 # Retrieve only instances with role=webservers OR role=dbservers tag
 # instance_filters = tag:role=webservers,tag:role=dbservers
 
-# Retrieve only t1.micro instances OR instances with tag env=stage
-# instance_filters = instance-type=t1.micro,tag:env=stage
+# Retrieve only t1.micro instances OR instances with tag env=staging
+# instance_filters = instance-type=t1.micro,tag:env=staging
 
 # You can use wildcards in filter values also. Below will list instances which
 # tag Name value matches webservers1*