tribunal-kit 3.0.0 → 3.1.0

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- name: deployment-procedures
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- description: Production application deployment mastery. Zero-downtime deployment strategies (Blue/Green, Rolling updates), Container orchestration (Docker/ECS), CI/CD pipelines, secrets injection, database migration safety, health checks, and rollback contingencies. Use when moving code from development to production execution.
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- allowed-tools: Read, Write, Edit, Glob, Grep
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- version: 2.0.0
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- last-updated: 2026-04-02
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- applies-to-model: gemini-2.5-pro, claude-3-7-sonnet
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- # Deployment Procedures — Production Execution Mastery
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- ✅ Does the application expose a hardened `/healthz` endpoint for orchestration routers?
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- ✅ Is CI concurrency restricted to prevent multi-job deployment collision and overlap?
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- ✅ Has `npm ci` been enforced over the mutable `npm install` for deterministic build resolution?
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- ✅ Are structural builds occurring solely inside isolated Linux environments/runners (no localized SCPing)?
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- ```
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+ name: deployment-procedures
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+ description: Production application deployment mastery. Zero-downtime deployment strategies (Blue/Green, Rolling updates), Container orchestration (Docker/ECS), CI/CD pipelines, secrets injection, database migration safety, health checks, and rollback contingencies. Use when moving code from development to production execution.
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+ allowed-tools: Read, Write, Edit, Glob, Grep
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+ version: 2.0.0
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+ last-updated: 2026-04-02
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+ applies-to-model: gemini-2.5-pro, claude-3-7-sonnet
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+ ---
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+
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+ # Deployment Procedures — Production Execution Mastery
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+
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+ ---
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+
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+ ## 1. Zero-Downtime Deployment Strategies
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+ Stopping a server, pulling code, building, and restarting is unacceptable. This results in 30-120 seconds of 502 Bad Gateway errors.
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+
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+ ### Blue/Green Deployment
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+ - Two identical environments (Blue is live, Green is idle).
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+ - Deploy v2 to Green. Run smoke tests on Green.
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+ - Swap the reverse proxy (Nginx or Load Balancer) router from Blue to Green.
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+ - Zero downtime. Rollback is instant (swap router back to Blue).
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+
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+ ### Rolling Updates (Container Clusters)
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+ - If you have 5 containers running v1.
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+ - Spin up 1 container running v2. Wait for it to pass health checks.
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+ - Drain and terminate 1 container of v1.
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+ - Repeat until all 5 containers run v2.
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+
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+ ```bash
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+ # Docker Swarm / ECS / Kubernetes inherently handle rolling updates
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+ docker service update --image myapp:v2 --update-parallelism 1 --update-delay 10s myapp_web
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+ ```
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+
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+ ---
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+
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+ ## 2. Infrastructure as Code (IaC) CI Pipelines
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+ All deployment logic must be codified and checked in alongside the application code.
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+
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+ ```yaml
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+ # .github/workflows/deploy.yml
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+ name: Production Deploy
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+
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+ on:
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+ push:
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+ branches: [ "main" ]
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+
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+ # Concurrency limits prevent race conditions if two commits are pushed rapidly
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+ concurrency:
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+ group: production-deploy
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+ cancel-in-progress: true
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+
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+ jobs:
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+ build_and_deploy:
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+ runs-on: ubuntu-latest
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+ steps:
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+ - uses: actions/checkout@v4
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+
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+ # 1. CI Phase: Fast fail
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+ - name: Install & Audit
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+ run: npm ci && npm audit --audit-level=high
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+
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+ - name: Unit Tests
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+ run: npm test
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+
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+ # 2. Build Phase
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+ - name: Build Assets
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+ run: npm run build
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+
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+ # 3. CD Phase (Deployment via SSH/Docker)
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+ - name: Deploy to Server
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+ uses: appleboy/ssh-action@master
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+ with:
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+ host: ${{ secrets.SERVER_HOST }}
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+ username: deploy_user
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+ key: ${{ secrets.DEPLOY_SSH_KEY }}
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+ script: |
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+ cd /opt/myapp
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+ git pull origin main
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+ docker-compose up -d --build
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+ # Container starts in background, port mapped to Nginx.
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+ ```
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+
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+ ---
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+
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+ ## 3. Database Migration Safety Rules
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+ Schema changes cause 90% of severe deployment outages.
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+ **The Expand-and-Contract Pattern (Zero Downtime DB Migrations):**
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+ Never drop columns or rename tables on a live system. Old code running against new schemas *will* crash.
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+
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+ *Goal: Rename column `first_name` to `given_name`*
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+ - **Phase 1 (Expand):** Add `given_name` as a NEW, nullable column. The app writes to BOTH columns simultaneously, reads from `first_name`.
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+ - **Phase 2 (Migrate):** Run background script copying `first_name` data to `given_name`.
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+ - **Phase 3 (Swap):** Deploy v2 Application code that reads/writes exclusively to `given_name`.
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+ - **Phase 4 (Contract):** Drop the legacy `first_name` column weeks later.
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+
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+ ---
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+
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+ ## 4. The 5-Minute Rollback Guarantee
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+ If the new deployment throws persistent 5xx errors, how fast can you revert?
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+ If the answer relies on "recompiling the old git commit," you have failed.
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+ 1. **Docker Tags:** Every build is tagged with the Git SHA (`myapp:a1b2c3d`). Reverting is a split-second container swap.
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+ 2. **Feature Flags:** The code deployed completely dormant. If it breaks when toggled via flag, the rollback is hitting the "Off" button on LaunchDarkly (Zero code deployed).
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+ 3. **Database Integrity:** Migrations are explicitly atomic (`BEGIN; DROP TABLE...; COMMIT;`) so failures roll back seamlessly.
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+
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+ ---