CI/CD

Deployment Environments and Approval Gates

Use named deployment environments and approval gates to protect sensitive targets while keeping artifacts, permissions, and readiness evidence explicit.

Intermediate14 min read
CI/CD lessonDelivery and reliability foundationsPractice

UNTIMED COACHING

Practice before the pressure

Use feedback to correct the model, not merely memorize an option position.

GUIDED PRACTICE

Practice the lesson questions

Answer normal lesson questions without a timer. Every answer includes an explanation, and incorrect answers can be tried again before continuing.

CONCEPT MODELS

See the lesson as a system

Use these visual guides to connect the key ideas before answering the questions.

Connect the roles in Deployment Environments and Approval GatesKeep environment target, protection rule, approval gate, and environment secret as separate service roles.
Connect the roles in Deployment Environments and Approval GatesA topic-specific model connects four distinct roles used to reason about deployment environments and approval gates.
Environment matchDecision selects staging or production target
Security controlSecurity blocks jobs until policy passes
Approval decisionDecision authorizes one production deployment
Credential securitySecurity releases secrets after target approval
Verify Deployment recordConnect deployment record with its topic-specific inspection, expected outcome, and protected delivery boundary.
Verify Deployment recordA verification model for deployment environments and approval gates connects the final service decision to its check, result, and protected boundary.
Environment recordRecord links target revision reviewer and result
Starting checkInspect environment record
Expected resultConfirm environment record
Safety boundaryProtect environment match scope