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The Basics of Deployment Pipeline

Explore the basics of deployment pipelines in API projects, including common challenges like release timing, managing large releases, and controlling variables. Understand how structured deployment processes help ensure safer and more reliable production releases.

Overview

In this lesson, we’ll discuss the background challenges of deploying API projects to the cloud and how deployment pipelines can make this easier, safer, and more reliable than just doing it all manually.

Basics of the deployment pipeline

One of the most challenging elements of designing and building APIs is the deployment of the completed work into production. In many organizations, this “release into production” step is very risky and many have a special set of protocols established to deal with it.

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