Selenium WebDriver Testing before Deployment

we want to integrate Selenium WebDriver-Tests in our Maven-Project. We do our deployment with Jenkins. Is it possible to execute the tests and deploy the application after the successful tests? I guess we need a Selenium Server for testing. I´m new in this topic and found not very much about the process (TEST the application BEFORE the deployment)

What are the requirements for that?

Are there any helpful links out there?

I hope some of you have a litte experience about that and could give me some helpful advice.

Thanks!