Release Process

- https://chat.deepseek.com/a/chat/s/6ae96d81-254a-4034-876a-5c367b97e66f¶

We follow a structured monthly release cycle that includes both
business requirements
technical improvements. \
Release Planning
At the start of each cycle, we identify business features and technical items
like infrastructure updates or tech debt reduction, for the upcoming release.
These are prioritized and assigned to sprints leading up to the release date.
idh/kafka update
deploymnet infra ahead of time.
talking and idh/comet team
Development Workflow
updating terraform module for tech upgrac
business jira
peer review
offshore code review
CI pipeline
- Junit
- synk scan
Release Branch Creation
Harness Pipeline for Deployment
our deployment orchestration tool.
stages for building artifacts, running tests, and deploying through environments (dev → QA → staging → production).
nexus / ecr
- registry for image + helm package
requires manual approval before production deployment
helm chart are version with pipeline var.
no blue and green
helm release-blue label:blue
helm release-green label:green
update service
rollback
roll back to the previous version using Harness + helm
Post-Release monitoring
retrospective to identify any process improvements for the next cycle.