Overview#

Production tier is the Deployment tier for a "live" implementation for the final Consumer of services (End-User)

Production tier of APIs#

Production tier of APIs is forever. An API is a promise that you will not "break" an application that is calling your API.

API versioning MUST support the API promise within Production tier.

More Information#

There might be more information for this subject on one of the following:

• API Planing
• Blue-Green Deployment
• Container
• Continuous Delivery
• Deployment tier
• Infrastructure
• Infrastructure As Code
• Kubernetes Service
• Self-Issued OpenID Provider
• The Twelve-Factor App