In-Place Deployment

A deployment strategy is a deployment style followed by an enterprise to install the latest version of its software to production. An in-place deployment is a legacy model commonly used in the pre-cloud era. In this model, the operations team prepares a new application version and initiates the deployment process typically during nonbusiness hours. There are two kinds of in-place deployment:

• All-at-once deployment

• Rolling update deployment

All-at-once deployment

An all-at-once deployment typically follows the steps below:

• If our application uses a load balancer, ensure all the instances are deregistered.

• The new application version is uploaded to all the servers. ...