Deployment
February 09, 2015
I wanted to read up on the basics of how teams deploy products. While at GA, we were able to work on a group project using the Agile methodology and scrum tactics but because we worked so closely together, merging branches and getting our app to production was fairly easy.
The following is a very basic primer on how larger teams might operate. Here are the basics for a good deployment workflow:
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Developers work on bugs and features in separate branches. Really minor updates can be committed directly to the stable development branch (AKA as the master branch in git).
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Once features are implemented, they are merged into the staging branch and deployed to the Staging environment for QA and testing.
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After testing is complete, feature branches are merged into the development branch.
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On the release date, the development branch is merged into production and then deployed to the Production environment.
Here is a diagram of the basic process:
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