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5 questions in Deployment Gates.

  1. Deployment Gates intermediate

    A pipeline has accumulated a dozen approval gates and lead time has doubled. Which gates are worth keeping?

    2 min answer browserstackgateslead-timeautomation
  2. Deployment Gates intermediate

    An enterprise's deployment gates have accumulated until releases take weeks. Which gates should remain automated, which manual, and which removed?

    2 min answer gatesautomationapprovalsrisk
  3. Deployment Gates intermediate

    During an outage, an engineer wants to bypass the pipeline and patch production directly. It would save 25 minutes. What is your position?

    2 min answer incidentgovernancecontrols
  4. Deployment Gates advanced

    On 8 March 2023 a systemd security update was applied automatically across a large fraction of Datadog's virtual machines. The restart of systemd-networkd removed routes managed by the container network plugin and took roughly half the Kubernetes nodes offline across five regions. The deployment pipeline was not involved. What failed, and which design decision allowed it?

    3 min answer datadogchange-managementstaged-rolloutunattended-updates
  5. Deployment Gates advanced Multiple choice

    Your edge platform propagates configuration changes to every location within seconds. Is that a strength or a risk?

    2 min answer cloudflareconfigurationblast-radiusstaging