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Acceptedgovernance2026-03-07

Preflight Stability Gate as Mandatory Release Precondition

Decision makers: Release Manager, SRE Lead

Context

Release validation without verified baseline stack health creates false negatives/positives and wastes incident budget.

Decision

Make preflight stability validation mandatory before release phase execution.

Required services must be Up and healthy.
Preflight artifacts must be generated before Phase 1 approval.
Preflight failure is automatic NO-GO until remediated.

Consequences

Positive

Consistent validation starting state.
Early detection of environmental failures.

Negative

Additional startup dependency on infra health.

References

scripts/release-validation/validate-release-preflight.sh
docs/releases/*/validation/preflight-stability-report.md
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