From the course: Continuous Deployment Strategies by Pearson
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Strategy overview
From the course: Continuous Deployment Strategies by Pearson
Strategy overview
Let's take a look at basic deployments, or like I like to call them Big Bang deployments, and try to understand what it actually is. If it's not already obvious, I'm not recommending in this course that you study the Big Bang deployment strategy in depth. In fact, I have a problem with calling it a strategy at all. It's more of an anti-strategy. that you do when you don't know what to do or you have no other options. As you can imagine, this approach simply redeploys code right over the previous version, overwriting files on pre-existing infrastructure. The infrastructure in this scenario is inherently mutable, meaning we expect and allow that infrastructure will change after it's already been deployed. It's similar to having a folder full of photos on your computer and then copying files from from another folder to your photos folder, overriding whatever was there and adding files that were not there previously. Now, I'm not gonna lie to you and tell you that Big Bang deployments are…