#25DELIVERYRELEASE
Deploy to Production
Promote tested artifacts to production
Medium
Overview
Promote the exact artifact tested in staging to production. Never rebuild for production.
Why It Matters
What you tested is exactly what ships. No rebuild, just promotion.
The Risk
Rebuilding for production introduces risk - 'it worked in staging' no longer applies. Manual steps get forgotten. Configuration differences cause outages.
Implementation Components
A complete implementation of this capability includes:
- Artifact promotion from staging (not rebuild)
- Identical deployment process for all environments
- Pre-deploy validation checks
- Automated deployment triggered by git tag
- Deploy monitoring and health checks
- Rollback procedure ready before deploy
Implementation Pattern
- 1Use same deployment process
- 2Promote artifact by tag
- 3Run pre-deploy checks
- 4Monitor during deploy
Tool Examples
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Dependencies
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