Software deployment

Software deployment is all of the activities that make a software system available for use.^[1]^[2]

Deployment can involve activities on the producer (software developer) side or on the consumer (user) side or both. Deployment to consumers is a hard task because the target systems are diverse and unpredictable.^[3] Software as a service avoids these difficulties by deploying only to dedicated servers that are typically under the producer's control.

Because every software system is unique, the precise processes or procedures within each activity can hardly be defined. Therefore, "deployment" should be interpreted as a general process that has to be customized according to specific requirements or characteristics.^[4]

^ Roger S. Pressman Software engineering: a practitioner's approach (eighth edition)
^ "Deploying software". www.ibm.com. Retrieved 2024-11-25.
^ A. Nejati, M. Svechikov, J. Wuttke: Deploying a C++ Software with (or without) Python Embedding and Extension. In: deRSE24 - Selected Contributions of the 4th Conference for Research Software Engineering in Germany, edited by J. Bernoth et al. Electronic Communications of the EASST, vol 83 (2025). https://eceasst.org/index.php/eceasst/article/view/2596.
^ Rees-Carter, Stephen (13 July 2018). "How to Install and Configure Ansible on Ubuntu 18.04". DigitalOcean. Archived from the original on 9 June 2019. Retrieved 8 June 2019. Configuration management systems are designed to make controlling large numbers of servers easy for administrators and operations teams. They allow you to control many different systems in an automated way from one central location.

[1] Roger S. Pressman Software engineering: a practitioner's approach (eighth edition)

[2] "Deploying software". www.ibm.com. Retrieved 2024-11-25.

[3] A. Nejati, M. Svechikov, J. Wuttke: Deploying a C++ Software with (or without) Python Embedding and Extension. In: deRSE24 - Selected Contributions of the 4th Conference for Research Software Engineering in Germany, edited by J. Bernoth et al. Electronic Communications of the EASST, vol 83 (2025). https://eceasst.org/index.php/eceasst/article/view/2596.

[4] Rees-Carter, Stephen (13 July 2018). "How to Install and Configure Ansible on Ubuntu 18.04". DigitalOcean. Archived from the original on 9 June 2019. Retrieved 8 June 2019. Configuration management systems are designed to make controlling large numbers of servers easy for administrators and operations teams. They allow you to control many different systems in an automated way from one central location.

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