Fantastic practical guide here. The 45-minute manual deploy ritual is way too relatable. One thing worth calling out is how the rollback job isolates failure recovery from the main deploy flow rather than trying to handle both in one massive script. When I was setting up similar pipelines, cramming rollback logic into the deploy job itself made debugging a nightmare beacuse failures would leave the system in half-reverted states.
Exactly! 'Boring is good' applies to rollbacks too. If the deployment job fails, the last thing you want is a complex script trying to figure out where it left off. A separate, dedicated rollback job keeps the logic simple and the state predictable. Thanks for highlighting that it’s a nuance that separates a 'good' pipeline from a 'production-ready' one.
Fantastic practical guide here. The 45-minute manual deploy ritual is way too relatable. One thing worth calling out is how the rollback job isolates failure recovery from the main deploy flow rather than trying to handle both in one massive script. When I was setting up similar pipelines, cramming rollback logic into the deploy job itself made debugging a nightmare beacuse failures would leave the system in half-reverted states.
Exactly! 'Boring is good' applies to rollbacks too. If the deployment job fails, the last thing you want is a complex script trying to figure out where it left off. A separate, dedicated rollback job keeps the logic simple and the state predictable. Thanks for highlighting that it’s a nuance that separates a 'good' pipeline from a 'production-ready' one.