A Complete Production-Ready Checklist for Smooth, Safe Deployments

Source: Dev.to

Deployments succeed or fail long before code reaches production. After seeing recurring gaps in readiness, consistency, and post‑deployment learning, I put together a Production‑Ready Checklist — a structured, practical guide for safer and more predictable releases.

What’s Inside

• ✅ End‑to‑end deployment readiness checklist
• 📄 Templates: deployment plan, incident report, rollback, PDV
• 📚 Real examples: successful deployment, failed deployment, lessons learned
• 🛡️ Best practices across monitoring, testing, security & performance

Community Questions

• How does your team ensure deployment readiness?
• What’s one check you never skip before a release?
• What should be added or improved?

Links

• GitHub Repo:
• Product Hunt Thread: