r/Directus

I'm upgrading a non-profit project to Directus 12 using an Open Innovation Grant license. Because v12 is heavily restricted by default, I need to use the license during development. According to their docs I should do so:

>For example, an Open Innovation Grant license supports up to 5
activations, intended to cover the distinct environments of a single
project (such as local, dev, staging, and production).

It seems like each time I start the container or a when the e2e tests are running on the CI one activation is used up, even though the NODE_ENV in the dev container is set to development.

I reached out via their licensing contact form but was just brushed off and told to re-read the docs page. Has anyone found a workaround for handling the license limits with ephemeral containers or CI pipelines?