This document summarizes a presentation on software deployment strategies. It discusses different deployment activities like release, install, upgrade, rollback, and uninstall. It emphasizes that deployment should be automated to remove human error and make the process simple. The presentation encourages attendees to automate repetitive tasks and remove fear from the deployment process. It also promotes deploying directly from version control for quick deployment.

1. SydPHP
May 2012

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4. Dean Rather
Android / PHP
Git MySQL Backups

5. Graham Weldon
Deployment Strategies

6. Deployment
All the activities that make a software
system available for use

7. Deployment Activities
Release
Install
Update
Rollback
Uninstall
Decommission

8. Release
Completion of development
Packaging to include dependencies
Versioning / Tagging

9. Install
Placement of executables
Placement of dependencies
Make software available

10. Upgrade
Re-Placement of executables
Re-Placement of dependencies
Make new software available

11. Rollback
Error detection
Revert to previous release
Report on issues

12. Uninstall
Removal of executables
Removal of dependencies
Cleanup

13. Decommissioning
Most forgotten step
Removal of all files and versions
Cleanup

14. Automation
Remove human error

15. Automation
If you do something more than once
Find a way to automate it
Documentation through programming/
scripting
Make deployment a simple thing to achieve
Focus on development

16. Remove fear

17. Remove fear

18. Automation Fail

19. Automation: Ideal

20. Deploy Quick!

21. Deploy from VCS
Commit
Automatic
Merge
Production

22. Code and Tools
Fun stuff!

23. Questions?

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