Deployment Manager supports Microsoft Azure, JFrog Artifactory, Amazon S3, and file system repositories for artifact management of application packages. For each run of a pipeline, Deployment Manager packages and promotes the application changes that are configured in a product rule. The application package artifact is generated on the development environment, published in the repository, and then deployed to the next stage in the pipeline.

A pipeline uses development and production repositories. After a pipeline is started, the application package moves through the pipeline life cycle in the following steps:

1. The development system publishes the application package to the development repository.
2. The QA system retrieves the artifact from the development repository and performs tasks on the artifact.
3. The staging system retrieves the artifact from the development repository and publishes it to the production repository.
4. The production system deploys the artifact from the production repository