- Chapter 7 is where you describe how your system is deployed: nodes, environments, connections, and runtime configuration. This is where "it works on my machine" goes to die (in a good way), because you make infrastructure, settings, and operational expectations explicit. In this article I show what belongs in chapter 7, what to keep out, a minimal structure you can copy, plus a small example from Pitstop.arc42 chapter 7: Deployment view