Deploying the project in different environments

If you take into account all of the best practices explained so far, deploying a project to a different environment shouldn't be a painful task.

The complexity of the deployment will vary from project to project, but in all cases, there are common tasks as follows:

1. Get all the information and settings related to the new environment. This includes information about external resources such as servers, folders, and database settings.
2. Edit a copy of the kettle.properties files and update the values of variables with the information of the new environment. Save the file in the right location—the Kettle home of the environment where you are deploying.
3. If you have more properties files besides the kettle.properties one, review and update them.
4. Regarding the PDI installation, make sure that it contains all the drivers needed for your project, for example, the JDBC drivers. Also, if in your project, you used plugins installed from the Marketplace, make sure...