deployment-procedures

A safe deployment process structures production releases into five phases: Prepare, Backup, Deploy, Verify, and Confirm or Rollback. This framework ensures teams reason through risk controls, verify environments, and maintain rollback readiness before confirming a release.

You plan a deployment by selecting a platform-appropriate strategy based on your project complexity, whether it is a static site or microservices. The process involves evaluating candidate platforms, performing pre-deployment checks across code quality and environment, and establishing post-deploy verification steps.

Before a production release, you should run pre-deployment verification across four categories: Code Quality, Build, Environment, and Safety. These checks confirm environment separation, backup readiness, and code integrity to minimize production risk during deployment.

You trigger an emergency rollback when post-deployment verification fails or clear rollback triggers are met. The deployment framework specifies requirements for emergency procedures, ensuring you have backups and a structured plan to revert to a stable state if production risk is detected.

Yes, this deployment framework works for serverless platforms by providing a principled approach to platform selection and risk controls. It guides teams through deployment decisions for varying project complexities, including serverless, ensuring safety and rollback readiness regardless of the architecture.