Platform & DevOps·Pipelines, promotion and GitOps
the pipeline stops and waits for a human to press a button, or for a metric to stay inside a threshold for ten minutes.
Deployment gate
Also calledapproval gate, manual approval, quality gate
A condition that must be satisfied before a pipeline proceeds — a human approval, a test result, an automated check on live signals. Automated gates are the useful kind, since they encode a specific belief about what makes a release safe. Manual gates mostly measure how quickly someone reads Slack, and they degrade into rubber stamps precisely when they are needed most.