You can deploy Software AG assets from one environment to another. For example, you can deploy assets you have developed on servers in a development environment to servers in a test or production environment. You can use either run-time deployment or repository-based deployment.

In runtime-based deployment, you use Deployer to deploy assets from servers in the source environment to servers in the target environment. If no firewall separates the environments, install Deployer on a machine that can access all source and target servers. If a firewall does separate the environments, install one Deployer on a machine in the source environment that can access all source servers and install another Deployer on a machine in the target environment that can access all target servers.

In repository-based deployment, you use the Asset Build Environment to copy assets from servers or a version control system (VCS) in the source environment to a file-based repository, and then use Deployer to deploy the assets from the repository to servers in the target environment. Install the Asset Build Environment on a machine that can access all source servers or the VCS, and also the file system that will host the repository. Install Deployer on a machine that can access all target servers, and also the file system that will host the repository.

In both types of deployment, you can deploy assets from any release of the supported products to target servers of the same release.