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Pattern: Full Production Readiness

Make sure your platform is fully provisioned with CI/CD, security, monitoring, observability,and other features essential to production readiness before you try to take it live

Full Production Readiness

Core Team is stepping up the cloud native platform. The new platform and the first few applications moving over to it are scheduled for full production delivery very soon.

In This Context

Too many companies try to rush their newly built cloud native platform into production before it is really ready. Typically the container scheduling platform isinstalled, but it’s still missing essential automation elements around maintenance and software delivery. This leads to poor quality of the running system and necessitates long delivery cycles. Many times the platform vendor will confirm production readiness of their tool—but without considering the whole system of delivery and maintenance cycles that are an equally crucial part of production.

Therefore

Before going to production all major elements of the platform, as well as those of any applications initially migrating to it, need to be in place. This includes havinga scheduler, observability, security, networking, storage, and CI/CD. Also, at least basic maintenance automation must be in place.

Consequently

The new platform is functional and maintainable, and major tasks are automated.The Platform Team can continue extending the platform while providing satisfactory support for the development teams using it.