Mistral AI Production Checklist

Overview

Complete checklist for deploying Mistral AI integrations to production. Covers credential management, code quality gates, health endpoints, circuit breaker resilience, gradual rollout, and rollback procedures.

Prerequisites

• Staging environment tested and verified
• Production API keys from La Plateforme
• Deployment pipeline (CI/CD) configured
• Monitoring and alerting ready (see mistral-observability)

Instructions

Step 1: Pre-Deployment Verification

Credentials

• Production API key stored in secret manager (never in env files or code)
• Key tested with curl -H "Authorization: Bearer $KEY" https://api.mistral.ai/v1/models
• Key has appropriate model access scope
• Fallback key available for rotation