Deployment Baseline

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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:

• Deployable Artifacts
• Artifact revisions
• Infrastructure Configurations
• Infrastructure Blueprints
• Machine Images
• Platform components
• Deployment specifications
• Required parameters
• Component relationships
• Target-environment constraints
• Applicable Security Baselines
• Applicable Acceptance Criteria

A Deployment Baseline differs from an Infrastructure Baseline:

• An Infrastructure Baseline establishes the approved reference for infrastructure characteristics
• A Deployment Baseline establishes the approved reference for the complete set of controlled inputs and conditions used to perform a deployment

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:

• The Deployment Baseline identifies the approved reference used to perform a deployment
• The deployment record identifies what occurred during a particular deployment execution

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:

• Infrastructure Deployment
• Platform Deployment
• Application deployment
• Combined deployment workflows

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 Deployment Baseline revision used
• The target Infrastructure Environment
• The deployment start and completion events
• The observed results
• Deviations from the Deployment Baseline
• Generated Evidence

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.