# Lifecycle Best Practices

The concepts listed below are common best practices to use when you are planning, deploying, and socializing expectations for the Sonatype Platform. These best practices come from our experience in Customer Success, Sonatype Support, and Engineering Teams. We share how Sonatype Lifecycle is intended to be used and the successful experiences of customers like you.

Each best practice outlines:

- How we've seen others be successful
- A path that avoids most common pitfalls
- Recommendations for good usage

## Getting started with Lifecycle Best Practices:

- [Lifecycle Deployment](https://help.sonatype.com/en/lifecycle-deployment-best-practices.html "Lifecycle Deployment Best Practices")
- [Onboarding Applications](https://help.sonatype.com/en/onboarding-applications-best-practices.html "Onboarding Applications Best Practices")
- [Software Bill of Materials](https://help.sonatype.com/en/software-bill-of-materials-best-practices.html "Software Bill of Materials Best Practices")
- [General Best Practices](https://help.sonatype.com/en/general-lifecycle-best-practices.html "General Lifecycle Best Practices")
- [Reference Policy](https://help.sonatype.com/en/reference-policy-best-practices.html "Reference Policy Best Practices")
- [Backup and Restore Best Practices](https://help.sonatype.com/en/backup-and-restore-best-practices.html "Backup and Restore Best Practices")

## Scanning and integrating into other toolsets:

- [Waivers](https://help.sonatype.com/en/waiver-best-practices.html "Waiver Best Practices")
- [Hierarchy and Inheritance](https://help.sonatype.com/en/hierarchy-and-inheritance-best-practices.html "Hierarchy and Inheritance Best Practices")
- [Continuous Monitoring](https://help.sonatype.com/en/continuous-monitoring-best-practices.html "Continuous Monitoring Best Practices")
- [InnerSource](https://help.sonatype.com/en/innersource-best-practices.html "InnerSource Best Practices")
- [Legacy Violations](https://help.sonatype.com/en/legacy-violations-best-practices.html "Legacy Violations Best Practices")

## Maximizing open source governance:

- [Policy Enforcement](https://help.sonatype.com/en/policy-enforcement-best-practices.html "Policy Enforcement Best Practices")
- [0-Day Vulnerability Best Practices](https://help.sonatype.com/en/zero-day-vulnerability-best-practices.html "Zero-Day Vulnerability Best Practices")