Deployment Management

Deployment management handles the physical or technical implementation of changes into production. It works closely with release management (which decides what to deploy) and change enablement (which authorises the deployment). Deployment approaches include big bang (all at once), phased (by location or user group), continuous delivery (automated deployment), and blue-green (parallel environments with traffic switching). In DevOps environments, deployment is highly automated through CI/CD pipelines, with infrastructure-as-code ensuring consistency between environments.