Deployment Pipeline Safety Gates
Define checks that must pass before production.
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Define safety gates for deploying to production. Application type and risk (payments, user data, internal tool): [APP_RISK]. Current deployment process: [CURRENT_PROCESS]. Past incidents caused by deployments: [PAST_INCIDENTS]. Tools available: [TOOLING]. Produce a gate list organised by phase: pre-merge, pre-deploy, during rollout, post-deploy. For every gate give the check, the signal it uses, an automatic pass or fail rule, who can override and how that override is recorded. Include database migration safety (backwards compatible changes first), config validation, dependency vulnerability gates with a severity policy, a canary or staged rollout with explicit abort thresholds in numbers I can edit, and an automatic rollback trigger. Map each past incident I listed to the gate that would have caught it and say honestly where no gate would have. End with the minimum viable set of five gates for a team starting from nothing. For each gate, estimate the added minutes to the pipeline and flag any gate likely to create alert fatigue or slow emergency fixes. Provide the emergency path: the smallest set of gates that still apply during an outage and who must approve skipping the others. Present the final gate list in two views, a table for humans and a numbered checklist that an automation script could follow. After the gate list, add a worked example for one gate chosen from my facts. Write it as a record with these fields: gate name, phase, check, signal and where it is read, pass rule with the number, fail rule with the number, override authority, where the override is logged, added minutes, and the past incident it would have caught. Then give a rollout order for introducing the gates over eight weeks, starting with the ones that are cheap and unambiguous, and say which gates should run in advisory mode for two weeks before they can block a deploy. Add a monthly gate review: which gates failed a deploy, which were overridden and why, and which never failed anything in three months and should be reconsidered or simplified.
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