Artifact: Vendor Deployment Unit
This is a composite artifact, supplied by the COTS package vendor, containing a build (an executable collection of components), documents (user support material and release notes) and installation artifacts.
Domains: Deployment
Purpose

The purpose of the Vendor Deployment Unit is to be a packaging mechanism that allows for the collecting of the following artifacts:

  • Package Build
  • Package Support Material
  • Package Training Material
  • Package Release Notes
  • Package Installation Artifacts
  • Package Bill of Materials

The artifacts contained in the Vendor Deployment Unit make up the constituent parts of a given version of a COTS package. The artifacts contained in the Vendor Deployment Unit are used as input to the following tasks as part of the implementation, installation and deployment of an instance of an Executing System.

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Tailoring
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