Deployment support/Kedro deployer

Description

We want to offer users better support with deploying Kedro.

• Production deployment is important to drive value; we're at least a couple years past when people were happy just running things locally
• A large percentage of "hard" questions we get are related to deployment
  • TODO: Consider quantifying this percentage and providing some examples
• The development team is also suffering
  • The existing deployment guides have a lot of challenges and are hard to maintain
  • Tribal knowledge about the different platforms and integrations (a few people wrote the deployment guides and plugins years ago)
  • Have to know too much (nobody can be an expert at deploying to so many platforms)

Implementation ideas

• Short-term
  • Support at least 1 "production" deployment archetype/stack out of the box
  • Create a single set of best practices for deployment
    • There should be a clear mapping from "best-practice Kedro pipeline" to "best-practice Kedro deployment"
• Medium-term
  • Integrate with a universal deployment backend that opens the gateway to standardized deployment to more platforms (e.g. https://github.com/couler-proj/couler)

Questions