Azure DevOps Academy · Production operations

Production Readiness Review

Validate ownership, supportability, security, resilience and safe release controls before go-live.

Delivery teams, DevOps engineers and technical leadsOperational evidence required
01

Service ownership

  • ✓ Named business and technical owners
  • ✓ Support model, escalation path and rota
  • ✓ Runbooks linked to known failure modes
02

Release controls

  • ✓ Automated quality gates
  • ✓ Rollback tested with time objective
  • ✓ Environment configuration verified
03

Operational acceptance

  • ✓ Monitoring and alerting active
  • ✓ Capacity and cost reviewed
  • ✓ Known risks explicitly accepted

Evidence standard

Do not mark this guide complete because a document exists. Completion requires reviewed configuration, test evidence, named ownership, known-risk decisions and a repeatable operating procedure.