UML Distilled: A Brief Guide to the Standard Object Modeling Language, Third Edition
by Martin Fowler
Chapter 8. Deployment Diagrams
Deployment diagrams show a system’s physical layout, revealing which pieces of software run on what pieces of hardware. Deployment diagrams are really very simple; hence the short chapter.
Figure 8.1 is a simple example of a deployment diagram. The main items on the diagram are nodes connected by communication paths. A node is something that can host some software. Nodes come in two forms. A device is hardware, it may be a computer or a simpler piece of hardware connected to a system. An execution environment is software that itself hosts or contains other software, examples are an operating system or a container process.
Figure 8.1. Example deployment diagram
The nodes contain artifacts, which are the physical manifestations ...
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