From 32085ad73246d37cc755037a39822e5a00a62e7a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Oliver Davies Date: Fri, 23 Jun 2023 13:32:02 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] daily-email: add 2023-06-21 Deployments vs releases --- src/content/daily-email/2023-06-21.md | 18 ++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 18 insertions(+) create mode 100644 src/content/daily-email/2023-06-21.md diff --git a/src/content/daily-email/2023-06-21.md b/src/content/daily-email/2023-06-21.md new file mode 100644 index 000000000..ce1a878b5 --- /dev/null +++ b/src/content/daily-email/2023-06-21.md @@ -0,0 +1,18 @@ +--- +title: > + Deployments or releases +pubDate: 2023-06-21 +permalink: > + archive/2023/06/21/deployments-or-releases +tags: + - deployments + - releases +--- + +"Deployments" and "releases" are often used interchangeably but mean different things. + +A deployment moves a change from one place to another, such as some updated code from a staging environment to production. + +A release is when the change made is available to users. + +They can happen at the same time, or you can use feature flags to separate them, deploying the code in advance, and the change is only released (or unreleased) by toggling the feature flag.