Deployment Track Summary

git, github, containers, cloud services, progressive web apps

Deployment Bites Index

git

Recipes for basic configuration management operations with git

github

Using github platform and actions to implement continuous integration

containers

Build production environment for application development

cloud

shows how to create account, allocate resources, and deploy to cloud

PWA

Deploying application as a web app

Deployment: "The act of moving something or someone into a strategic position or a position of readiness."
- Dictionary.com

Software deployment makes software services, applications, projects and repositories available to specific sets of users, e.g.

Deployed service is made available to all connected agents that know the path to the service. That may require an access token. Azure DevOps
Deployed application is made available to all network connected agents which have to authenticate to access all but basic services. Outlook.com
Deployed project is made available to all registered project members through some platform like github. Project TBD
Repository is made available to every user logged into the platform holding the repository. Access is usually read-only but allows cloning to the user's environment. Rust ThreadPool

Deploying software artifacts requires knowledge of the deployment infrastructure and, in some cases, a usage fee.

Benefits of Deployment

Enable large numbers of users to take advantage of your work.
Instantly make functional and sequrity updates, available to all users.
Support storage and retreival of user's information in deployed applications.
Provide quick turn-around for collaboration. With appropriate setup and tools, that supports continuous integration and testing of new and modified software components.

In summary, deploying software artifacts requires significant investment to learn the appropriate deployment infrastructre, but provides very large benefits for usability, and supports processes that would not be possible otherwise.

Deployment Bites

Development and Assembly of material for this topic is just beginning. Treat the items after "DeployBite_git" as an "alpha-spec" for things to come.

These Deployment Bites provide basics and some intermediate material for practical deployment processes:

DeployBite_git provides basic recipes for often used Configuration Management operations using git.
1. local configuration management
2. summary of git commands: status, commit, push, and pull
3. create and use branches, diff, merge
DeployBite_github describes continuous integration (CI) using the github platform and user defined repositories.
1. remote configuration management in github repository
2. create account, add repositories, remote operation, push, pull, pull request
3. documentation in Readme.md
DeployBite_PowerShell provides basic recipes for PowerShell scripts useful for deployment
1. shell, cmdlets, scripts, functions, and modules
2. pipeline for orchestrating: linting, formating, building, testing, and deployment
3. a few recipes for common searching, sorting, and formatting operations
DeployBite_containers shows how to provide a deployable production environment so developers work directly with the delivery platform facilites.
1. encapsulate environment for development and publishing
2. create account, add libraries, remote operation, push, pull, pull request
3. documentation
DeployBite_cloud illustrates mechanisms for deploying applications from a cloud platform.
1. deploy applications from third party platform, e.g., Azure, AWS, google
2. create account, add applications, test functionality, publish
3. documentation
DepployBite_pwa discusses the technology used by Progressive Web Applications (PWAs) and illustrates with examples how to deploy an application as a PWA.
1. deploy applications as web apps for desktop, laptop, and phone use
2. summarize technologies, e.g., development to google spec, C#
3. documentation