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title: Deployment packages
description: Deployment packages provide a controlled, consistent way to promote finalized policies from development to production.
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# Deployment packages

A deployment package captures a specific commit of your policy state, providing a controlled, versioned way to promote finalized policies from development to production.

After policies have been developed, tested, and approved in a branch, they're bundled into a deployment package for promotion. This ensures deployments reflect a specific reviewed state, reducing the risk of unintended changes.

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|   | Deployment packages are intended for use in [embedded policy decision point](../pingauthorize_server_administration_guide/paz_config_embedded_pdp.html) (PDP) mode. To export and load policy and Trust Framework data into Policy Editor instances, use [snapshots](paz_generate_snapshots.html) instead. |

Deployment packages offer the following benefits:

* **Predictable policy rollouts**: Packages standardize the promotion of policies across environments, reducing the chance of configuration drift or inconsistent deployments.

* **Separation of duties**: Policy authors can create and test policies independently, while administrators handle deployment.

* **Auditability and traceability**: Each package ties to a specific, versioned policy state, making it easier to track what was deployed and when.

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|   | The **Deployment Packages** tab displays up to 100 packages at a time. If a branch contains more than 100 packages, click **Load more** at the bottom of the list to load the next group of 100 packages. |

Learn more about deployment package operations:

* [Creating and exporting a deployment package](../pingauthorize_server_administration_guide/paz_export_deployment_package.html)

* [Deleting a deployment package](paz_delete_deploy_package.html)