Cold Deploy

Noun · Slang & Abbreviations

Definitions

  1. A deployment performed without recent warm-up, rehearsal, or recent familiarity with the exact path being used. In engineering slang, a cold deploy feels riskier because both the system and the humans may be rusty.

    In plain English: A deployment done without recent rehearsal or warm familiarity with the process.

    Example: "Pushing the fix through a cold deploy path at 2 a.m. made everyone nervous, because nobody had used that environment since the last platform migration."

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