Deployment involves packaging up your web application and putting it in a production environment that can run the app.
Your web application must live somewhere other than your own desktop or laptop. A production environment is the canonical version of your current application and its associated data.
There are four options for deploying and hosting a web application:
"Bare metal" servers
Virtualized servers
Infrastructure-as-a-service
Platform-as-a-service
Thoughts on web application deployment walks through stages of deployment with source control, planning, continuous deployment and monitoring the results.
Practical continuous deployment defines delivery versus deployment and walks through a continuous deployment workflow.
