Platform Engineering Academy · Production operations

Production Readiness Review

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

Platform engineers, architects and engineering leadersOperational 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.