Deployment Patterns

Production deployment workflows and CI/CD best practices.

When to Activate

See instead:

• Container configuration → docker-patterns
• CI pipeline setup → ci-cd-patterns
• Kubernetes manifests → kubernetes-patterns

Use this skill when:

• Choosing or implementing a deployment strategy (blue-green, canary, rolling, feature flags)
• Orchestrating a release across environments (staging → production promotion)
• Designing a rollback plan for a risky schema change or infrastructure update
• Planning traffic shifting and progressive delivery steps
• Validating environment variable configuration at application startup to fail fast on misconfiguration
• Preparing a production readiness checklist before go-live