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Release checklist

Before, during and after a deploy: owners, go/no-go checks and the rollback trigger, as a checklist.

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The job it does

Every production release, so nobody skips the database backup or forgets to watch the error rate after.

What's inside

This is the template exactly as the DevOps & TechOps Lab opens it, read-only. Open it to run it, change it and export it.

  • 18 checklist items
  • Exports as Markdown
The brief: Release checklist

A checklist you tick in the lab and export as Markdown for the wiki, the release ticket or the on-call handbook.

Release checklist: mangrove-web 2026.03

Owner: the release captain on duty · Rollback owner: the on-call engineer

Before (day before)

  • Release notes written and linked in the release channel
  • Database migrations reviewed; each one is backwards compatible
  • Backup taken and a test restore done in the last 24 hours
  • Feature flags for new features default to off
  • Support and store managers told what changes and when

Go / no-go (release day)

  • CI green on the release commit, including end-to-end tests
  • No open severity 1 or 2 bugs for this release
  • Error rate and p95 latency normal for the last hour
  • Release captain and rollback owner both online

During

  • Deploy to staging, run the smoke tests
  • Deploy to 10% of production (canary)
  • Watch the dashboard for 15 minutes: error rate, p95, orders per minute
  • Roll out to 100%

Rollback trigger

  • Roll back at once if errors rise above 2% or orders per minute drop by a third
  • Command: deploy rollback mangrove-web --to previous

After

  • Smoke tests pass on production
  • Release marked done; notes posted
  • Anything that went wrong added to the next retro
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