Software Deployment

On a real cloud, Service type: LoadBalancer provisions an external address. On a local cluster it often does nothing useful

Local Kubernetes is a cluster on a developer machine (kind, k3d, minikube, Docker Desktop). Use it to exercise manifests, operators,

Kubernetes runs containers across machines: you declare a desired state, the control plane tries to make it true. Use it

Deploying an ASP.NET Core app means a published artifact (framework-dependent or self-contained), a process manager, config outside the binary, and

Deployment infrastructure is everything that must exist for a build to become a running service: compute, network, identity, data stores,

Azure Pipelines is Microsoft’s CI/CD: YAML (or classic UI) that builds, tests, and deploys. Treat the YAML as code in

Deployment principles are the rules that keep a release boring. Tools change; these do not: same artifact, small steps, observable,

Software deployment is moving a specific build into an environment and making it the thing that serves traffic. If you