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Software life cycle encompasses many activities: analysis, design, production, test and deployment. This last activity is itself a complex process composed of sub-activities like configuration, installation and update. Complexity and importance of deployment are both increased by network evolution and component based applications. It is possible to imagine some solutions allowing an automated deployment by providing to each user the most consistent and adapted software version, with respect to deployment strategies of the enterprise and user needs. There are many approaches and tools for deployment however few allow to cover all the deployment life cycle usually imposing some strong constraints.<br /><br />This thesis proposes a deployment environment named ORYA: an automated support for deployment life cycle activities. ORYA is based on the reuse and integration of existing deployment tools. We propose an abstraction of the various deployment actors and entities as well as an infrastructure allowing the interoperation of heterogeneous tools. This work focuses more particularly on the selection activity using a generic component model and a framework based on an annotation system and some rules. The second activity studied in this thesis is the installation, which is based on a process language allowing the process description and its realization in the real world.<br /><br />The ORYA prototype has been validated in the context of an industrial experimentation.