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Deploy

Meaning in software engineering, with examples

/dɪˈplɔɪ/verbCore term

In software engineering, deploy means: To put a new version of software onto servers or devices so that it starts running there, for example in a test environment or for real users.

In Turkish: dağıtmak, yayına almak, canlıya almak

How it is used

Very common in daily work: 'deploy to staging', 'deploy to production', 'Do we deploy on Fridays?' The noun is 'deployment', though developers also say 'a deploy' informally.

Example sentences

  1. We deploy to production every Tuesday and Thursday.

  2. Can you deploy my branch to staging so the designer can check it?

  3. The deployment failed because a database migration timed out.

Common collocations

  • deploy to production
  • deploy to staging
  • deploy a fix
  • failed deployment
  • automated deployment
  • releaseA version of a product that is made available to users, or the act of making it available. Also a verb: to release a new version.
  • productionThe live environment where real users use the software, as opposed to development or test environments.
  • stagingAn environment set up to be as close as possible to production, where a team checks a release one last time before real users get it.
  • CI/CDShort for continuous integration and continuous delivery (or deployment): automatically building and testing every change, then releasing it quickly and safely.
  • roll backTo return a system to an earlier working version after a release or change causes problems.

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