Deployment
The act of installing or activating a software version in a particular environment.
Plain English
Put a version of the software into an environment where it can run.
In context
Deployment moves technical artifacts and configuration while release controls when or to whom functionality becomes available.
Example
“The deployment reached production but the feature remains disabled.”
When you'll hear this
- delivery pipelines
- release operations
- incident response
Common misunderstanding
Deployment and release are not always the same event especially when feature flags or staged rollout are used.
Also known as
deploy
Commonly used by
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Updated: 2026-08-27
