deployment-procedures

Plan zero downtime production deployments by applying rolling or blue-green deployment patterns with pre-deployment verification, backups, and health checks. This structured approach minimizes blast radius and verifies readiness before releasing changes.

Execute a production rollback using structured rollback prompts and planning built into your deployment workflow. This ensures verified backup states and clear procedures to revert changes safely without extended downtime.

Include health checks and post-deploy verification in your CI/CD pipeline by following multi-phase deployment procedures. This involves validating application health and monitoring metrics immediately after production release to catch failures early.

Choose canary deployments over blue-green when you need to route a subset of production traffic to validate changes incrementally and reduce blast radius. Blue-green provides instant rollback by switching between two identical environments.

You do not need a specific CI/CD platform. The guided deployment patterns and rollback prompts apply to any production release workflow across platforms, covering multi-phase deployment, health checks, and post-deploy validation.