Deployment Plan

Core Workflow

1. Identify artifact, target environment, hosting model, dependencies, release owner, users affected, and approval requirements.
2. Document pre-deploy checks: build, tests, migrations, config, secrets, capacity, observability, and support readiness.
3. Define deployment steps, rollout order, smoke tests, monitoring, and communication points.
4. Include rollback or fallback triggers before deployment begins.
5. Separate dry-run, staging, canary, and production steps.
6. Record owners, timing, risks, and go/no-go criteria.

Safety Rules

• Do not deploy, change production config, run migrations, or restart services without explicit approval.
• Do not claim a deployment is safe without validation evidence.
• Escalate deployments involving customer data, auth, billing, migrations, high traffic, regulated workloads, or broad availability.

Deliverable Shape

For deployment plans, provide:

• Target artifact and environment
• Preconditions
• Deployment steps
• Smoke tests and monitoring
• Rollout and communication plan
• Rollback triggers
• Owners and approvals
• Go/no-go criteria

References

• Read references/deployment-plan-checklist.md when preparing deployment plans or runbooks.