production-deployment-phase

Automating production deployment promotes validated staging builds to production environments using semantic versioning, automated health checks, and release tagging. The workflow executes end-to-end deployment, verifies post-deploy health, and generates ship reports for audit trails.

Promoting a staging build to production with semantic versioning triggers automated version bumps, release tagging, and deployment execution. The process ensures validated staging builds transition safely to production environments while generating full audit metadata.

Running health checks and post-deploy verification requires initiating the deployment workflow, which automatically monitors production readiness after release tagging. The system validates that promoted staging builds maintain stability within the production environment.

Staging validation is required before triggering automated production deployment, as this workflow specifically promotes validated staging builds to production environments. Skipping staging validation bypasses the core safety checks designed to ensure production readiness.

Ship report creation works by capturing deployment metadata and audit trails during release tagging and production deployment. It documents the end-to-end workflow, providing a full audit trail of semantic versioning, health checks, and post-deploy monitoring results.