Deployment artifact
A deployment artifact is a software output, such as a file, package, or image, prepared for distribution, installation, execution, or deployment.
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A deployment artifact is a packaged archive containing the code, scripts, configuration, and instructions required to release software.
- How it is used
- Packages application files and release instructions for automated Lambda and CodeDeploy deployments.
- How deep it goes
- Explains archive contents, S3 storage, deployment commands, lifecycle hooks, and package-size effects on Lambda cold starts.
- Examples
- Uses Lambda packages, the Etherpad ZIP revision, AppSpec lifecycle scripts, and AWS CLI packaging and deployment commands.
- What you can do after
- Build and deploy ZIP-based application releases with SAM, AWS CLI, CloudFormation, or CodeDeploy.
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A deployable artifact is a tested software package or image that is ready to be deployed.
- How it is used
- Supports repeatable releases by moving tested packages or images from CI into deployment environments.
- How deep it goes
- Explains artifact creation through containerized builds, unit tests, end-to-end tests, and registry publication, but not artifact formats beyond Docker images.
- Examples
- Uses Docker images, Compose environments, local and cloud databases, unit tests, and end-to-end tests as concrete artifacts and workflows.
- What you can do after
- Operate a Docker-based CI pipeline that builds, tests, packages, and publishes deployable images.
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- container imageincludes · A container image is a packaged filesystem and configuration artifact from which a container can be created and run.
- object storeuses · An object store is a storage system that stores and retrieves data as independently addressable objects containing content and associated metadata.
- dacpacincludes · A DACPAC is a SQL Server data-tier application package containing definitions of database objects for schema deployment.
- continuous integrationproduced by · Continuous integration is a software development practice in which code changes are integrated frequently into a shared codebase and automatically validated.
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