deployment-procedures

Plan a safe production deployment by following a 5-phase workflow: Prepare, Backup, Deploy, Verify, and Confirm-or-Rollback. This process enforces pre-deployment checks, phased execution, and rollback readiness to reduce release incidents.

You need a zero-downtime deployment strategy when releasing changes to production traffic that cannot tolerate interruptions. Select canary, blue-green, or rolling tactics based on your specific change risk and platform requirements.

During post-deployment validation, verify application health, monitor logs, test key user flows, and check performance. Maintain this validation window from minutes up to a next-day review to catch delayed issues.

Avoid common deployment anti-patterns like skipping staging, bundling multiple changes together, walking away early after releasing, or deploying without a backup. These practices severely compromise production safety.

Yes, you can use this workflow for serverless and microservices releases. It applies platform-specific workflows and risk controls across static sites, simple web apps, and microservices to satisfy operational requirements.

Choose rollback tactics like redeploying, restoring backups, executing rollout undos, or reverting to previous image tags. Select the appropriate tactic based on the specific change risk and failure scenario.