Chapter 10. Service Delivery: The Deployment Phase

Let ’er roll!

—Elvia Allman to Lucy and Ethel

In the previous chapter we examined the build phase, which ends with the creation of a software package. In this chapter we’ll examine the deployment phase, which uses the package to create a running service.

The deployment phase creates the service in one or more testing and production environments. Deciding if a release used in the testing environment is ready to be used in the production environment requires approval.

The goal of the deployment phase is to create a running environment. This environment is then used for testing or for live production services.

As Figure 9.1 (page 198) showed, packages are retrieved from the package repository and ...

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