Platform Deployment

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Platform Deployment establishes an operational platform within a target Infrastructure Environment.

The deployed platform may comprise:

• Operating-system components
• Runtime components
• Middleware
• Container services
• Data services
• Messaging services
• Identity and access services
• Monitoring services
• Logging services
• Security services
• Platform configuration
• Supporting Artifacts

Platform Deployment may perform activities such as:

• Retrieving identified platform Artifacts
• Installing platform components
• Applying platform configuration
• Establishing component relationships
• Starting platform services
• Evaluating deployment results
• Recording the deployed platform state

Platform Deployment differs from Infrastructure Deployment:

• Infrastructure Deployment creates or modifies the infrastructure resources that constitute an Infrastructure Environment
• Platform Deployment installs and configures the platform capabilities that operate on or within that Infrastructure Environment

A Platform Deployment may depend on Infrastructure Deployment, but the architecture may perform the two deployments through separate workflows or combine them within a coordinated deployment process.

Platform Deployment also differs from application deployment:

• Platform Deployment establishes the services and runtime capabilities required to host or support applications
• Application deployment installs and configures an application on an available platform

deployment that installs and configures platform components and services within a target infrastructure environment

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A Platform Deployment may use:

• Machine Images
• Container images
• Installation packages
• Configuration Artifacts
• Deployment specifications
• Platform Deployment scripts
• Baselines
• Security Baselines

Completion of a Platform Deployment does not by itself establish that the deployed platform satisfies its applicable Acceptance Criteria.

The applicable requirements determine:

• Required platform components
• Required configuration
• Target Infrastructure Environment
• Permitted deployment methods
• Required validation
• Required records
• Required Evidence

The term does not prescribe a particular operating system, middleware product, container platform, cloud provider, deployment tool, or implementation technology.

A Platform Deployment installs and configures container orchestration, identity, logging, monitoring, messaging, and security services within a prepared Infrastructure Environment.