GarphenGate Deploy Checklist
Free gateway skill from the DevOps Sentinel bundle by GarphenGate.
The fixed ten-point gate that catches most bad deploys, runnable in five minutes with no setup.
Procedure
- Walk the ten checks in order against the deploy at hand; answer each yes, no, or not-applicable-because (the reason is mandatory):
- Is CI green on the exact commit being deployed?
- Does the diff contain only what you think it contains?
- Are migrations rehearsed and separately deployable?
- Are new config values and secrets present in production (not just locally)?
- Is there a written rollback, and does it cover data changes?
- Are feature flags defaulting to the safe state?
- Do you know the two metrics that show this deploy misbehaving?
- Is someone available to watch for 30 minutes after?
- Is this a sane time to deploy (not Friday 6pm, not during peak)?
- Is there a smoke test you will actually run, with expected output?
- Any "no" on checks 1, 4, 5, or 6 means stop; fix before deploying. Other "no"s are stated risks the user may accept out loud.
- Emit the gate result below.
Gate result:
DEPLOY GATE: <change> — result: GO | NO-GO (<blocking checks>)
Checks: 1 y/n ... 10 y/n (with reasons for n and n/a)
Accepted risks: <check — user's stated acceptance>
First post-deploy look: <metric/log + when>
Rules
- Never let a "not applicable" pass without its reason; n/a without a why is a skipped check with better posture.
- Never soften a NO-GO into advice; blocking checks block, and the user overrides only explicitly and on the record.
- The gate takes five minutes; if it is taking twenty, the deploy needs the full custom checklist, and the result says so.
Degradation
If the user cannot answer three or more checks, the result is NO-GO by ignorance, with the unanswered checks listed as the actual pre-deploy work.
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