Stage 05
Deployment & DevOps Process
Canary releases, rollback ready, IaC-first.
Approach stage 05: Deployment & DevOps ProcessWhy it matters
Why this stage earns its keep.
releases are boring
canary + auto-rollback
no click-ops
IaC for every environment
uptime focus
SLO + alert on symptoms, not noise
fast recovery
rollback drills run quarterly
Step by step
How it runs.
IaC baseline
OpenTofu modules per environment
CI/CD pipeline
lint, test, build, scan
Canary release
5% traffic, bake, promote
Monitoring
Prometheus + Grafana + Sentry
SLO review
error budgets monthly
Rollback drill
quarterly rehearsal
Deliverables
What you walk away with.
- IaC repo
- CI/CD pipeline
- runbooks
- monitoring dashboards
- alerting policy
- SLO reports
- rollback plan
- cost report
Who's involved
The people on the stage.
- DevOps engineer1
- SRE0.5
- on-call rotationteam
Controls
Quality & risk.
- IaC for every change; no click-ops
- secrets in vault only
- canary before full rollout
- rollback rehearsed quarterly
- least-privilege IAM by default
FAQ
Questions, answered.
Cloud-agnostic?
AWS/GCP/Azure plus on-prem containerized.
Who owns accounts?
You - accounts, repos, runbooks.
What about costs?
FinOps guardrails + monthly report.
Multi-cloud?
Only when parity is earned.
How do we stay after?
Enablement sessions + runbooks delivered.
Deployment & DevOps Process applied to your project.
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