Summary

And we're pretty much done! This chapter completes the cycle of development phases in our application by deploying it. We went from building a very simple application, to adding features to it, to adding tests, and—finally—to deploying it.

Here, we learned how we can use some of the benefits of containerization in our applications. We started learning about Docker, our container runtime of choice, and rapidly moved on to creating an image for our application. Learning about some Docker commands as we moved through the process, we also experienced how easy it is to prepare a Deno application to be deployed.

Creating this Docker image enabled us to have a replicable way of installing, running, and distributing our application, creating a package with everything the applications needs.

As the chapter proceeded, we started to explore how we can use this application package to deploy it in a cloud environment. We started by configuring the cloud platform...