The present invention provides an application deployment method and device. The method includes: receiving an application deployment request including a resource package identifier of a resource package and method artifact information of each method artifact; acquiring the resource package according to the resource package identifier, where the resource package includes the resource description file and a deployment plan, the resource description file describes the abstract method, and the deployment plan references the abstract method; adding the method artifact information to the resource description file according to the correspondence between each method artifact and each abstract method that is in the resource description file in the resource package, to form an application deployment description file; and executing, according to the application deployment description file, the method artifact of the abstract method referenced by the deployment plan. The present invention improves expansibility of application deployment.