Can you tell how the deployment process of an application was carried out in your project?

The application deployment process typically involves several stages:

1. Build and testing — the code is compiled and automated tests are run.
2. Environment preparation — configuring servers, databases, environment variables.
3. Deployment — copying or uploading artifacts to the server, starting necessary services.
4. Functionality verification — testing in production, monitoring.

In my project, a CI/CD pipeline based on GitLab CI was used, which automatically built the application, ran tests, and upon success, deployed to staging and then to production. Docker containers were used for deployment, which facilitated portability and scalability of the application.