Redwood - Is it mandatory to start redwood development on test instance only?

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Is it mandatory to start redwood development on test instance only? Or Can we start on test and later we continue rest of development on any other pod like dev1,dev4 (After migrating whatever we are having on another pod) will this impact anything?

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