Getting started
fDeploy is an on-premise deployment automation server for Windows environments. It models your deployment process once, snapshots it into immutable releases, and reliably pushes those releases through a progression of environments (for example Dev → QC → UAT → Production) to one or more Windows deployment targets. Target machines run a lightweight Agent that executes IIS deployments, PowerShell scripts, certificate installs, and HTTP requests on fDeploy’s behalf.
If you are evaluating fDeploy for the first time, this section walks the path from zero to a running deployment in four short steps.
1. Request a trial license
fDeploy will run for a 30-day evaluation period without a license, but a trial license is required to actually launch a deployment against a target.
Get your trial license
2. Install fDeploy Server and Agent
fDeploy Server runs on the machine that hosts the web UI and the database. fDeploy Agent runs on every machine you intend to deploy to.
Go to installation3. Learn the mental model
Before clicking around, spend two minutes on Core concepts — the eight nouns that every subsequent page assumes you understand.
4. Walk through your first deployment
With the server installed and concepts in hand, follow Your first project to set up the minimum infrastructure and a working project, then Your first deployment to ship a release to your target.