Best practices in deployment

In Chapter 3, Basics of Continuous Delivery, we went over what a deployment is, explained the deployment pipeline, and spoke about test gates in a deployment pipeline. We also spoke about deployment scripting and about the deployment ecosystem.

Let's highlight some other good strategies when doing deployments:

• Creating a deployment checklist
• Releasing automation

Creating a deployment checklist

Every company will have unique constraints and so it is not possible to create a deployment checklist that satisfies the constraints of every company but, in general, here are some guidelines that may be helpful throughout all deployments.

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