Why switch to automated software deployment? There is a small percentage of software teams that have a “one click” automated deployment process. Most teams have a partially automated deployment process while the majority of teams have a fully manual process.

In this guide, we’ll show you why businesses are switching towards automated deployment. It’s faster, effective, and it is easier for organizations to repeat the deployment process. Without further adieu, let’s get started!

Easily Deployed

With an automated software deployment process, the system has the knowledge on how you can release the software, not inside the individual’s brain.

Performing partially-automated deployments are apart of the small group of people within the organization. It isn’t uncommon for the duty to fall to one person in a project team. If this one person is ill in a short notice, releasing will become a nightmare. Now anyone on your team can press a “Deploy” button can start a release.

More Frequent Releases

A deployment performed by automated software has a low overhead. A release process that has a low overhead can be released frequently. With frequent releases, you can promote an agile software deployment environment.

Teams with frequent releases can deliver more valuable features to their users more often. By doing so, they can have consistent feedback from the users on their software and change their approach based on the result. The feedback can be the difference between your final product reaching your audience or missing the target completely.

Engineers Can Spend Time Developing Software

Performing a manual software deployment process is a time-consuming task. This job can’t fall to the developers in your team who can be otherwise spending time producing the next set of revolutionary features to your software.

It takes only a few seconds to initiate an automated deployment. Validating the deployments occur behind the scenes and your team members might have to spend extra time on it if something goes wrong.

Reduces the Number of Errors

You’ll always see errors when doing manual deployments. This is due to humans doing stuff, and based on Murphy’s Law: If a problem can occur, it will occur. Faults might not be spotted, important steps before release can occur, or the incorrect versions of your software can be released live.

Automated software deployments don’t suffer from variability. Once they are configured, the process is made, and it will remain the same each time the release is initiated. Once you’ve deployed it the first time in a given environment, it will work for the 100th time.

Easily Configured Procedures

Automated deployments are both repeatable and configurable. While the release process is usually permanent, the target machines and environments can change easily.

This means that if you need to deploy software in a new environment, there won’t be any overhead when deploying the additional target. It’s a case of configuring your initial setup and relying on your automated software.

Conclusion

To conclude, you’ll need automated software deployment to meet the needs of your users and organization. This means you’ll have to plan with your IT team on the most effective way to release your software. Once you’ve gotten used to it, you will find it easier to complete future software projects in the long run.