General steps for a deployment.
The following steps describe the deployment process. Details for each of the steps are provided in the following sections:
- Preparation – getting ready to start a deployment.
- Development – the changes are made to the DEV environment.
- Deployment Package Creation – all or a subset of the changes made to the DEV environment pulled together for deployment to QA and/or PROD along with deployment instructions.
- Back Up the Target Environment – back up the target environment's EPIM database and data model.
- Deployment Execution – applying the deployment to the target environment.