Chapter 10. Deploying and Releasing Applications
Introduction
There are differences between releasing software into production and deploying it to testing environments—not least, in the level of adrenaline in the blood of the person performing the release. However, in technical terms, these differences should be encapsulated in a set of configuration files. When deployment to production occurs, the same process should be followed as for any other deployment. Fire up your automated deployment system, give it the version of your software to deploy and the name of the target environment, and hit go. This same process should also be used for all subsequent deployments and releases.
Since the same process is used for both, this chapter deals with ...
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