Finally, it is time to ship our application. There are many ways to get our application deployed to the production environment. We can choose to do it manually, starting from running the mvn clean install command, to sending the .jar file to servers using tools such as FTP or the scp command, then stopping the old version of the application and starting the new version, followed by initiating the E2E test. Or, we can write Python/shell scripts to automate some of the steps. Either way, there are manual steps, which creates room for errors. That's why rolling out an application manually or half-manually is always stressful. Constant focus is required throughout the entire release.
Nowadays, there are various tools that can help us with that. Many of these tools provide deep integration with Version Control Systems...
