What is deployment?

[Paul Rubin]

Ben Finney <bignose+hates-spam at benfinney.id.au> writes:
> Agreed. I usually discuss "deployment" as meaning "everything required
> to take something from the point of working in a vendor's lab
> environment, to an actual working installation in a production
> environment".

I'd go beyond that.  It includes putting the people and procedures in
place for keeping the production system operating, upgrading it as
needed, customer support, the whole bit.  It's all the stuff that
happens on the other side of the line separating "development" from
"operations".