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Deployment in Salesforce

There are many different ways to deploy Salesforce in production. Salesforce deployment involves simply moving Salesforce metadata to production.

There are three ways to move metadata to production:

From a sandbox to a Production Org
From one Production Org to another Production Org
From a developer org to a Production Org

There are various methods to achieve Salesforce metadata deployment:

Change Sets
The Ant Migration Tool
The Force.com IDE
Third-party tools that use the Metadata API or the Tooling API
The SOAP API
Visual Studio Code with Salesforce DX plugins

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