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Deployment

Meaning in cloud computing & devops, with examples

/dɪˈplɔɪmənt/nounCore term

In cloud computing & devops, deployment means: The 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.

In Turkish: dağıtım, yayına alma, deployment

How it is used

Common in status updates and tools: 'the deployment failed', 'a deployment is in progress', 'deployment frequency'. Kubernetes users write 'Deployment' with a capital letter when they mean the object.

Example sentences

  1. The deployment failed because the new container couldn't connect to the database.

  2. Please don't merge anything while the production deployment is running.

  3. Let's scale the Deployment to five replicas before the campaign starts.

Common collocations

  • production deployment
  • deployment pipeline
  • deployment failed
  • zero-downtime deployment
  • deployment frequency
  • deployTo 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.
  • pipelineAn automated series of steps, such as building, testing and deploying, that runs every time code changes and stops if one step fails.
  • rollbackReturning a system to an earlier, working version after a new change causes problems.
  • blue-green deploymentA release method with two identical production environments: the new version is put on the idle one, then all traffic is switched to it at once.
  • KubernetesAn open-source system that runs and manages containers across many machines: it starts them, restarts failed ones, spreads traffic and scales them up or down.

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