Deployment is the activity that will make your software available, that is, ready for end customer or market. So basically when we have tested the code, the post building process, we will have the build artifacts, which we need to deploy to the production machine so that the latest feature should be available for the end users to use.
Deployment can be done manually as well as automatically. Sometimes, some enterprises keep this process manual, but most of the companies are automating it. Let's list out the benefits of automated deployment:
- Less error prone and more repeatable: Manual deployments are error-prone because it involves human interference. It's obvious that sometime deployment engineers forget to perform important steps in a release accidentally, which leads to incorrect versions of software, or broken software will get deployed, which of course...
