Questions tagged [release-management]

Use this tag for questions about Release Management, related to topics about managing, planning, scheduling and controlling a software build through different stages and environments.

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How can DevOps help to improve Software Escrow procedures?

Consider a software vendor and a licensed customer of some software of this vendor, wheres the software being licensed is either used on premise (at the customer's location), or in the format of SaaS solution (hosted by the vendor). However the…
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Validating release artifact provinence

While this question could be posed in a vendor agnostic fashion - I'll gear it around Github and Azure to give it some context. I am planning an open-source project, in a sensitive business domain (banking). As such, I feel it would be important for…
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How to keep track of broken releases?

I spent considerable time googling around, but found nothing that would answer my question, so here it is. If you do a canary release, and you learn the the release is somehow broken: how to you denote that a certain tag is broken and should not be…
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How to refresh user's content of the site after release?

I have an Angular / Web Api 2 site that uses ui-router for SPA behaviour and gulp for file transformations. There is an issue where when I release the site, the user has to refresh their browser to view new content (usually). I have cache busting…
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Releasing so many changes at once to production

My company has a mobile app which we release a new update every 2-3 weeks. For each release, there are about 50-60 Jira tickets attached. The amount of code change between the release are very high. We do not follow any CI/CD, so releases happen…
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