Deployment Overview

According to Wikipedia:

“Software deployment is all of the activities that make a software system available for use.”

In web application development, this usually means:

• Creating a server instance that is accessible to all users of the software.
• Establishing and maintaining the application code on this server.

Deployment Considerations

• Does the software need to be accessible publicly on the Internet, or should it be deployed on an intranet or over a VPN?
• Will code be deployed directly to the production server, or will there be testing and staging servers as well?

Note

• When an end-user can access a web application, the hosting server is commonly referred to as a “production” server.
• Where a server is availabe only for program testing, but it is otherwise identical to the production environment, it is called a “staging” server.
• Any old server which programmers deploy to for testing work is known as a “testing” server.