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5 questions in Change Advisory vs Automated Gates.

  1. Change Advisory vs Automated Gates advanced

    A change advisory board reviews all production changes. Engineering wants automated gates. What is the actual trade?

    1 min answer change-managementcabautomationrisk
  2. Change Advisory vs Automated Gates advanced

    A payments and ride-hailing platform of Grab's shape replaced its weekly change advisory board with automated gates fourteen months ago. At 23:40 a configuration change reaches production through the emergency path and skips the canary stage. By 23:46 card authorisations are failing in two markets; recovery takes 51 minutes. The review finds that 38% of production changes in the previous quarter used the emergency path, median approval 90 seconds by whoever was on call. What failed?

    3 min answer change-controlbreak-glassdeployment-gatescoverage
  3. Change Advisory vs Automated Gates advanced

    An organisation's change advisory board is slow and, by its own incident data, is not preventing failures. What should replace it, and what genuinely requires human review?

    2 min answer change-managementgatesautomationdora
  4. Change Advisory vs Automated Gates advanced

    How would you replace a change advisory board without weakening control?

    2 min answer change-managementautomationgatesevidence
  5. Change Advisory vs Automated Gates advanced

    Reddit's 14 March 2023 outage ran 314 minutes after a Kubernetes 1.23 to 1.24 upgrade removed the node-role.kubernetes.io/master label that Calico route reflector selectors depended on, and Kubernetes has no supported downgrade. Sequence the next cluster upgrade so a gate can actually block it.

    3 min answer redditkubernetesupgradeautomated-gates