Deploy Checklist

To verify API health before a production deployment, run a pre-deploy checklist that checks your git working tree, scans for secrets, and validates local service endpoints. This ensures environment hygiene and confirms routes are reachable before pushing changes.

A pre-deploy safety checklist for API releases includes verifying a clean git working tree, scanning for common secret patterns, and confirming environment configuration is correctly ignored. It ensures local service health checks pass before pushing changes to production.

To validate remote endpoints after a production rollout, execute post-deploy health checks that confirm key remote API and agent endpoints are functioning. This deterministic validation verifies operational monitoring signals like Sentinel and ARIA status are consistent.

You do not need a specific CI/CD platform to run a deploy checklist. It is a standalone verification process that validates environment hygiene, secret scanning, and endpoint health, making it suitable for manual or automated production rollouts without external dependencies.

The best way to ensure secret scanning and environment hygiene before pushing code is to enforce a pre-deploy checklist that checks for common secret patterns and verifies environment configuration is properly ignored in git, preventing sensitive data from reaching production.

You should report deployment completion to a War Room to maintain operational traceability after validating your release. This reporting step follows the confirmation of critical service routes and ensures operational monitoring signals are reviewed and recorded.