Precautions when deploying in Production

Do not upgrade just before a weekend, without doing any testing beforehand, or before a vacation period.

• Inform the users of the application before and after deployment.
• Avoid deleting data from production when possible.
• Disable operators; don't delete them.
• Use a datapackage when deploying in Production instead of copy-pasting the parameters.
• Avoid using the same datapackage every time you deploy changes. Create a specification with just the changes you need.
• Back up the parameters on production before importing important parameters from development

Deploying changes to the data structure generates a database update. These updates can cause locks on the tables and cause issues on the operations.

To avoid any side-effects, ensure that the environment where the packages have been built uses the same version and build number as the production environment.