Production Readiness

Purpose: Certify that a release meets all quality, security, performance, and operational criteria for production deployment. Scope: Quality gates, release checklists, chaos testing, rollback validation, observability, go/no-go decisions.

When to Use This Skill

• Certifying a release candidate for production
• Running pre-release quality gates
• Validating rollback and recovery procedures
• Performing chaos/resilience testing
• Verifying observability and alerting
• Making go/no-go deployment decisions
• Post-deployment validation

When NOT to Use