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Platform & DevOps·Pipelines, promotion and GitOps

the pipeline hits three real endpoints after the rollout and fails the deploy if any of them is unhappy.

Post-deploy verification

Also calledsmoke test, post-deployment check, deployment verification

Automated checks run against the deployed system immediately after a release, distinct from the tests that ran against the artefact. They catch the class of failure that only exists in the real environment: missing configuration, absent permissions, an unreachable dependency. They are the precondition for automated rollback, because something has to decide the deploy failed.

Commonly confused with