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Human approval gates in release promotion enforce an explicit review checkpoint before any external publishing side effects occur. This validates the review verdict and requires manual go-ahead immediately before executing the real deployment.

A dry-run in a deployment pipeline summarizes planned side effects without executing them. It is needed before promoting a release candidate to production to ensure controlled rollout and prevent accidental or premature publishing.

Promoting a release candidate safely requires confirming the validation review verdict is approved for the target lane, running a dry-run to plan side effects, and then executing the canonical promotion pipeline with explicit human approval.

Release promotion workflows support end-to-end encryption to secure the deployment pipeline. This ensures that validation verdicts, explicit approvals, and side-effect executions remain protected across preview and production lanes.

No, executing a real deployment requires explicit human approval immediately after the dry-run. This gating mechanism prevents accidental side effects and ensures controlled rollout across the release pipeline.

Automated release promotion without human validation risks accidental or premature external publishing. Enforcing verdict checks, mandatory dry-runs, and explicit side-effect approval gating mitigates these limitations for controlled rollouts.