Your code works on your laptop, so how do you let the whole world access it? This guide explains what deployment is with a food-delivery analogy, walks through the full chain from develop, build, test, and release to run, compares five common methods (manual, FTP, Git, CI/CD, containers), and includes a comparison table, answering "what does deploying a website actually mean."
Docker announced OIDC connections for GitHub Actions, letting CI/CD workflows authenticate with short-lived, per-run tokens instead of long-lived PATs or OATs — no more manual secret rotation.
Cloudflare announced inbound TCP support and gRPC capabilities for Workers during Agents Week: Workers accept inbound sockets via Spectrum, Containers run bidirectional gRPC, and gRPC-web converts automatically.