12.4. Conclusion

Automated Deployment, and in its most advanced form, Continuous Deployment or Continuous Delivery, can be considered the culminating point of a modern Continuous Integration infrastructure.

In this chapter we have reviewed several Automated Deployment techniques, mostly centered around Java-based deployments. However, the general principles discussed here apply for any technology. Indeed, the actual deployment process in many other technologies, in particular scripting languages such as Ruby and PHP, are considerably simpler than when using Java, and essentially involve copying files onto the production server. Ruby also benefits from tools such as Heroku and Capistrano to facilitate the task.