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Deploy

Meaning in cloud computing & devops, with examples

/dɪˈplɔɪ/verbCore term

In cloud computing & devops, deploy means: To put a new version of an application or service onto servers so that it starts running there, for example in a test environment or for real users.

In Turkish: dağıtmak, yayına almak, canlıya almak, deploy etmek

How it is used

One of the most frequent verbs in the field. You deploy code, a service or a fix, and you deploy to an environment: 'deploy to staging', 'deploy to prod'. Teams also ask 'Who deployed last?' when something breaks.

Example sentences

  1. I'll deploy the fix to staging first and ask QA to check it.

  2. We don't deploy on Friday afternoons unless it's an urgent security patch.

Common collocations

  • deploy to production
  • deploy a fix
  • deploy a new version
  • deploy automatically
  • deploymentThe act of putting a new version of software onto servers, or one particular time this is done. In Kubernetes it is also the name of an object that manages a set of identical pods.
  • rollbackReturning a system to an earlier, working version after a new change causes problems.
  • pipelineAn automated series of steps, such as building, testing and deploying, that runs every time code changes and stops if one step fails.
  • productionThe live environment that real customers use. A problem in production affects users directly, so changes there are made with the most care.
  • roll outTo release a new version, feature or change to users or servers, often step by step over a period of time rather than all at once.

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