# Host-Coupled Deployment

> Deploying software that depends on specifics of its host machine, so it cannot be moved or reproduced elsewhere.

Record: `lexicon:host-coupled-deployment`
Kind: anti-pattern
Layer: [Resource Core](https://banes-lab.com/records/layer/resource-core.md)
Canonical: https://banes-lab.com/ontology/lexicon#lexicon-host-coupled-deployment

Listed in [Lexicon terms](https://banes-lab.com/api/records/lexicon.md), after [Externalized Config](https://banes-lab.com/records/lexicon/externalized-config.md) and before [Image Complexity](https://banes-lab.com/records/lexicon/image-complexity.md).

## Category

- [Portability / Infrastructure / Deployment](https://banes-lab.com/records/lexicon-category/portability-infrastructure-deployment.md)

## Negated by

- [Containerization](https://banes-lab.com/records/architecture/containerization.md)

## Linked from

- [Portability / Infrastructure / Deployment](https://banes-lab.com/ontology/principles/architecture-category-portability-infrastructure-deployment.md)