A Deployment Baseline is a specialization of Baseline that establishes an approved reference for the Artifacts, configuration, parameters, relationships, and constraints used for a deployment.
The general concept of Baseline provides the controlled reference against which a subject can be compared, evaluated, changed, or restored.
A Deployment Baseline applies that concept to a deployment and may identify:
A Deployment Baseline differs from an Infrastructure Baseline:
A Deployment Baseline may incorporate or reference an Infrastructure Baseline, Security Baseline, platform baseline, or other subordinate Baseline.
A Deployment Baseline also differs from a deployment record:
baseline that establishes an approved reference for the artifacts, configuration, parameters, relationships, and constraints used for a deployment
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A Deployment Baseline should have an identifiable revision so an evaluator can determine which reference applied to a particular deployment.
A Deployment Baseline may apply to:
Approval of a Deployment Baseline does not establish that a deployment succeeded or that the deployed result satisfies the applicable Acceptance Criteria.
The applicable deployment record may identify:
The term does not prescribe a particular deployment tool, orchestration product, repository, platform, or implementation technology.
A Deployment Baseline identifies the Infrastructure Configuration, Machine Image revision, platform packages, Security Baseline, deployment parameters, and Acceptance Criteria used to perform a Platform Deployment within a production Infrastructure Environment.
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