Production Safety Checklist (PROD-SAFETY)

Before production deployment, you must verify documentation, gather testing evidence, prepare backups, define rollback procedures, assess blast radius, and establish observability and communication protocols to ensure safe, reversible, auditable changes.

To verify rollback procedures before a production release, you must ensure that rollback plans are fully documented and tested, allowing you to systematically reverse infrastructure and application changes if deployment issues occur.

Post-deployment checks involve immediate and short-term verification steps to confirm successful production release, identify any emerging issues, and validate that infrastructure and application components function correctly after deployment.

Assessing blast radius involves validating potential impact across infrastructure and application components during pre-deployment checks, ensuring that production changes remain reversible and compliant with release engineering safety standards.

You need a formal production safety checklist for database migrations to systematically verify prerequisites like data integrity, ensure documentation and testing evidence are complete, and guarantee a clear path to rollback if necessary.