Platform & DevOps·Pipelines, promotion and GitOps
every build output is stored somewhere with a version and a retention policy, and deploying is a pull from there.
Artefact registry
Also calledartefact repository, package registry
The store that holds published build outputs, with versioning, access control, retention and often scanning attached. It is the seam between build and deploy, and it is a production dependency: if it is unavailable, nothing scales up and no node is replaced. Retention policy is where it bites — the rollback target you need is the one the cleanup job deleted last week.