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# Deployment lifecycle

> How a project change becomes a running deployment.

A deployment makes a project release available in an environment.

## Lifecycle

| Step      | Meaning                                                                  |
| --------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------ |
| Configure | Environment variables, secrets, domains, and runtime settings are ready. |
| Release   | Cloud prepares a release candidate from project source or build output.  |
| Deploy    | Cloud assigns the release to an environment.                             |
| Run       | Runtime services serve the deployed project.                             |
| Observe   | Logs, traces, and deployment state show what happened.                   |

## Why releases and deployments differ

A release is what can run. A deployment is where that release is running.

That split lets one release move across environments without rebuilding the same project state.