deployment-sop

name	deployment-sop
description	Deployment workflows, pre-deploy validation, and smoke testing patterns. Use when deploying to staging or production, running smoke tests, or validating deployments.

Deployment SOP Skill

Purpose

Route to existing deployment SOPs and provide checklists for safe, validated deployments. This skill does NOT duplicate SOP content—it links to authoritative sources.

When This Skill Applies

• Deploying to staging or production
• Running pre-deploy validation
• Executing post-deploy smoke tests
• Accessing development machines for deployment
• Coordinating release activities

Authoritative References (MUST READ)

Document	Location	Purpose
Semantic Release SOP	docs/ci-cd/Semantic-Release-Deployment-SOP.md	Release automation workflow
Staging/UAT Release SOP	docs/sop/STAGING-UAT-RELEASE-SOP.md	UAT validation process
Linux Dev Machine Access	docs/deployment/LINUX-DEV-MACHINE-ACCESS-SOP.md	Dev server access
Production Server Access	docs/deployment/PRODUCTION-SERVER-ACCESS-SOP.md	Production deployment

Pre-Deployment Checklist

Before ANY deployment:

• All CI checks pass (GitHub Actions green)
• PR merged to target branch
• No unresolved blockers in Linear
• Database migrations tested locally
• Environment variables verified

# Validate before deploy
yarn ci:validate
yarn build

Post-Deployment Smoke Test

After deployment completes:

• Health endpoint responds: curl https://{domain}/api/health
• Database connection verified (check health response)
• Authentication flow works (sign-in/sign-up)
• Critical user flows functional
• No new errors in logs

# Smoke test commands
curl -s https://{domain}/api/health | jq .
# Expected: {"status":"healthy","timestamp":"..."}

Deployment Evidence Template

For Linear ticket attachment:

## Deployment Evidence - REN-XXX

### Environment

- **Target**: Staging / Production
- **Branch**: `{branch_name}`
- **Commit**: `{commit_sha}`

### Pre-Deployment

- [x] CI checks passed
- [x] PR merged
- [x] Migrations verified

### Post-Deployment

- [x] Health check: PASSED
- [x] Auth flow: PASSED
- [x] Smoke tests: PASSED

### Verification

curl -s https://{domain}/api/health
{"status":"healthy","timestamp":"2025-XX-XXTXX:XX:XX.XXXZ"}

Rollback Procedure

If deployment fails:

1. Identify failure - Check logs, monitoring dashboards
2. Revert commit - git revert {commit_sha}
3. Push revert - Triggers automatic rollback deployment
4. Verify rollback - Run smoke tests again
5. Document incident - Update Linear ticket with evidence

Stop-the-Line Conditions

FORBIDDEN

• Deploying with failing CI checks
• Skipping smoke tests on production
• Deploying database migrations without local testing
• Force-deploying over active incidents

REQUIRED

• Health check MUST pass within 5 minutes
• Production deployments MUST have staging validation first
• Rollback plan MUST be documented before production deploy

Branch → Environment Mapping

Branch	Environment	Auto-Deploy
dev	Staging	Manual pull
main	Production	Automatic

Note: Merging to dev builds Docker image but requires manual pull on staging server.