Deployment

Dockflow deploys your application using Docker Swarm. This section covers the deployment process, health checks, and rollback behavior.

How Deployment Works

When you trigger a deployment, Dockflow performs the following steps:

1. Build - Docker images are built from your Dockerfiles
2. Transfer - Images are sent to your server via SSH
3. Deploy - The application is deployed as a Swarm stack
4. Verify - Health checks confirm the deployment succeeded

If health checks fail, Dockflow automatically rolls back to the previous working version.

Deployment Topics

Triggering a Deployment

Deployments are triggered through your CI/CD pipeline:

Tag-based deployment: Push a git tag to deploy that version.

git tag 1.0.0
git push origin 1.0.0

Branch-based deployment: Push to a branch to deploy the latest commit from that branch.

git push origin main

The deployment environment is determined by your configuration in .deployment/config.yml.