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Deployment automation best practices

Deployment automation best practices enable teams to release software frequently and reliably. GitScrum provides deployment tracking and release management to support automated deployment workflows.

Deployment pipeline stages

Source ──► Build ──► Test ──► Deploy Staging ──► Deploy Production ──► Monitor
   │         │        │            │                    │              │
   ▼         ▼        ▼            ▼                    ▼              ▼
Git Push  Automated  Quality Gates  Smoke Tests       Blue-Green     Alerting
          Build      & Security    & Integration     Deployment    & Rollback

Automation strategies

  • Blue-green deployments: Zero-downtime releases with instant rollback
  • Canary releases: Gradual rollout to subset of users for testing
  • Feature flags: Enable/disable features without redeployment
  • Rolling updates: Update instances incrementally across the fleet

Deployment safety measures

Automated Testing ──► Manual Approval ──► Gradual Rollout ──► Monitoring ──► Rollback Plan
        │                     │                     │              │              │
        ▼                     ▼                     ▼              ▼              ▼
   Unit & Integration     Stakeholder Review    Percentage-based   Real-time       Automated
   Tests                  & Business Approval   Deployment       Metrics        Recovery