Platform & DevOps·Pipelines, promotion and GitOps
nothing may ship for three weeks over the peak period, so a hundred changes go out together on the day it lifts.
Change freeze
Also calleddeployment freeze, code freeze, peak freeze
A period during which deployments are prohibited, usually around a commercially critical window. It reduces the rate of changes and increases the size of every one that follows, which trades a small chance of many small failures for a large chance of one big one. It is most defensible when the release process is genuinely risky, which makes it a symptom worth reading rather than a practice worth defending.