CI/CD Safeguards That Keep Uptime Stable
Bake uptime checks into pipelines to prevent bad deploys.
By Jordan LeeProduct Manager•Published November 15, 2025•5 min read
Shift left on checks
Run smoke synthetics in staging and canaries before full rollout.
Block deploys when SLO burn is already high.
Automate rollbacks
Trigger rollback on failing health checks within minutes.
Make rollback commands part of runbooks and pipeline steps.
Pipeline safeguards
- Canary stages
- Automatic rollback hooks
- Feature flag kill switches
Keep stakeholders aware
Notify status page owners when risky deploys begin.
Log deploy IDs in incidents to speed triage.
CI/CD should be your first uptime defense, not a risk multiplier.
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- Author: Jordan Lee
- Role: Product Manager
- Published: November 15, 2025
- Reading time: 5 min
Tags
#ci/cd#deploys#uptime
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