Smart delivery assistant

A non-transitory computer-readable medium having computer-executable instructions that, upon execution of the instructions by a processor of a computer, cause the computer to perform:

• receiving a deployment request for deployment of a candidate service into a target computing environment, where the deployment request includes an identifier for the candidate service and a version number for the candidate service;
• comparing the version number of the candidate service to version number of the corresponding service deployed in the target computing environment;
• rejecting the deployment request in response to the version number of the candidate service being equal to or less than the version number of the corresponding service deployed in the target computing environment;
• identifying call dependencies between the candidate service and other services in the target computing environment by accessing a topology model, where the topology model represents call dependencies between services deployed in the target computing environment;
• for each identified call dependency, comparing version of a given service in a given test computing environment with version of a corresponding service in the target computing environment, where the given service has a call dependency with the candidate service and the candidate service is deployed in the given test computing environment;
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• providing a deployment recommendation for the candidate service into the target computing environment based on version differences in at least one service having a call dependency with the candidate service.