Platform & DevOps·Pipelines, promotion and GitOps
error rate crossed the threshold ninety seconds in and the system reverted to the previous version without waking anyone.
Automated rollback
Also calledauto-rollback, abort on failure
Reverting a release automatically when post-deploy signals breach a threshold. It converts a class of incident into a non-event, and it depends entirely on the previous artefact still being deployable — which is a statement about migrations, not about the pipeline. Forward-only changes to schemas and data are exactly what make automated rollback impossible, which is why they deserve the scrutiny they get.