Production Release Process for Manufacturing Software and AI Teams
acty.dev defines a practical production release process for small manufacturing software and AI teams: a repeatable production deployment workflow with a release checklist, a rollback path, an environment and secrets checklist, a smoke-test plan, and documentation.
We define a practical production release process for small manufacturing software and AI teams, delivered as a release checklist, a rollback path, an environment and secrets checklist, a smoke-test plan, and documentation. This is a repeatable production deployment workflow your team can run again on its own, not incident staffing or enterprise release governance.
The problem we solve
A manufacturing software or AI team can build features but has no predictable way to promote them to production: there is no release checklist, no agreed rollback path, environment variables and secrets live in someone's head, and there is no smoke test, so every release is a gamble.
How we work
- Review the release path.We review how the project is built, deployed, and promoted today, and the environment and secrets it depends on, then scope a release process.
- Define the process.We define the release checklist, the rollback path, the environment and secrets checklist, and the smoke-test plan against the agreed scope.
- Test the release.We run the release process once, end to end, and the smoke test, to confirm the steps and the rollback path actually work as written.
- Hand off documentation.We hand over the release process documentation, with ongoing DevOps support available for further work.
What you bring / what you get
Inputs
- The application repository and deployment target
- The current build, deploy, and promotion approach
- The environment variables and secrets the project depends on
Outputs
- A release checklist and a rollback path
- An environment and secrets checklist and a smoke-test plan
- Release process documentation
Definition of done.A practical, repeatable production deployment workflow for a small software or AI team, delivered as a release checklist, a rollback path, an environment and secrets checklist, a smoke-test plan, and documentation, so promoting to production is predictable instead of improvised.
Fit and anti-fit
Good fit
- Teams that can build features but have no predictable path to production
- Small software or AI teams without a release checklist or rollback path
Not a fit
- Requests for incident staffing, uptime targets, or enterprise release governance
- Kubernetes, SRE, or large-scale regulated infrastructure requests
Questions
- What does a production release process include?
- A release checklist, a rollback path, an environment and secrets checklist, and a smoke-test plan, delivered with documentation, so a small software or AI team can promote to production predictably.
- Does this work with our existing deployment target?
- Yes — we define the release checklist, rollback path, and smoke-test plan around your current deployment target and promotion approach, rather than asking you to change platforms.
- What is out of scope?
- We do not promise incident staffing, uptime targets, or enterprise release governance without a separate scope, and we do not make Kubernetes, SRE, or always-on incident response promises.
- What do you need to provide to start?
- The application repository and deployment target, your current build, deploy, and promotion approach, and the environment variables and secrets the project depends on.
- How is this priced?
- A scoped release process can start from a few hundred dollars. Larger setup work and ongoing DevOps support are scoped after a task review.
- Is this a one-time setup or ongoing work?
- It is delivered as a release process you can repeat on your own, with a checklist, a rollback path, and a smoke-test plan, and it can also run as recurring work, scoped after a task review.
Pricing.A scoped release process can start from a few hundred dollars. Larger setup work and ongoing DevOps support are scoped after a task review. (Scoped after a task review.)
