DevOps For Dummies



Chapter 11

Deploying a Product

IN THIS CHAPTER

Releasing versus deploying code

Implementing CI/CD

Managing deployment incidents

Choosing a deployment style

As I discuss in Chapter 10, you should thoroughly test all code before releasing it to customers. The deployment process refers to releasing that code to customers. That process can be as simple as clicking a button or as complex as a series of pipelines and gates through which the code must pass to reach customers. Sometimes you hear the term release used interchangeably with deployment.

A deployment is the movement of code from one environment to another. A developer can deploy their code from their local machine to the development (DEV) environment. At that point, the code may pass through several more environments, like user acceptance testing (UAT) or quality assurance (QA), staging, and production (PROD). The deployment to production — specifically, a deployment to customers — is the purest form of the word release.

In this chapter, you find out how to implement continuous integration ...