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Create a deployment pipeline documentation for [application name].

Pipeline details:
- Application: [name]
- Cloud provider: [AWS/GCP/Azure]
- CI/CD tool: [GitHub Actions/Jenkins/GitLab CI]
- Environments: [dev/staging/production]
- Deployment strategy: [blue-green/rolling/canary]
- Approval required: [yes — who/no]

DEPLOYMENT PIPELINE DOCUMENTATION

1. PIPELINE OVERVIEW

   TRIGGER CONDITIONS
   - Push to main: [triggers staging deploy]
   - Pull request: [triggers test pipeline]
   - Tag v*.*.*: [triggers production deploy]
   - Manual trigger: [when and who can]

   PIPELINE STAGES
   1. Lint and format check
   2. Unit tests
   3. Integration tests
   4. Security scan
   5. Build artifact
   6. Deploy to staging
   7. Smoke tests on staging
   8. [Manual approval for production]
   9. Deploy to production
   10. Production health check

2. ENVIRONMENT CONFIGURATION

   DEVELOPMENT
   - URL: [dev.example.com]
   - Database: [dev instance]
   - Auto-deploys: [yes — every merge to dev branch]
   - Data: [synthetic/anonymized]

   STAGING
   - URL: [staging.example.com]
   - Database: [staging instance]
   - Auto-deploys: [yes — every merge to main]
   - Data: [production-like anonymized]

   PRODUCTION
   - URL: [example.com]
   - Database: [production]
   - Deploys: [manual approval required]
   - Approval: [team lead/on-call]

3. DEPLOYMENT STEPS

   PRE-DEPLOYMENT
   ☐ All tests passing
   ☐ Security scan passed
   ☐ Dependencies updated
   ☐ Database migrations tested on staging
   ☐ Rollback plan confirmed
   ☐ On-call notified for major releases

   DEPLOYMENT
   ```bash
   # Example deployment commands
   docker build -t app:$VERSION .
   docker push registry/app:$VERSION
   kubectl set image deployment/app app=registry/app:$VERSION
   kubectl rollout status deployment/app
   ```

   POST-DEPLOYMENT
   ☐ Health check endpoint returns 200
   ☐ Key user flows smoke tested
   ☐ Error rate within normal range
   ☐ Latency within normal range
   ☐ Deployment logged in changelog

4. ROLLBACK PROCEDURE
   Trigger: [error rate above X% / latency above Xms]
   Steps:
   ```bash
   kubectl rollout undo deployment/app
   # Verify rollback successful
   kubectl rollout status deployment/app
   ```
   Time to rollback: [under X minutes]

5. MONITORING DURING DEPLOY
   - Error rate dashboard: [link]
   - Latency dashboard: [link]
   - Business metrics: [link]
   - Logs: [link]

6. SECRETS MANAGEMENT
   - Tool: [AWS Secrets Manager/Vault/GitHub Secrets]
   - Never in code or config files
   - Rotation policy: [frequency]
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