Archives and Folders
There are specific characteristics about how Deploy handles archive artifacts (such as ZIP files) and folders. In Deploy's Unified Deployment Model (UDM) type hierarchy, there are two base types for deployable artifacts:
There are specific characteristics about how Deploy handles archive artifacts (such as ZIP files) and folders. In Deploy's Unified Deployment Model (UDM) type hierarchy, there are two base types for deployable artifacts:
Deploy is an application release automation (ARA) tool that deploys applications to environments (for example, development, test, QA, and production) while managing configuration values that are specific to each environment. Deploy is designed to make the process of deploying applications faster, easier, and more reliable. You provide the components that make up your application, and Deploy does the rest.
The Deploy: Understanding Packages video describes deployables—files and settings, delivered in a deployment package, that your application needs to run—and deployeds—the things that are actually created in your target servers as part of a deployment.
In Deploy, you can use the tagging feature to configure deployments by marking which deployables should be mapped to which containers. By using tagging, in combination with placeholders, you can prepare your deployment packages and environments to automatically map deployables to containers and configuration details at deployment time.