Building an Auditable CI/CD Release Process: Balancing Automation, Approval, and Rollback
The goal of continuous integration and continuous delivery is not to remove controls, but to turn repetitive work into a verifiable, traceable standard process. This article presents practical enterprise release governance from code commit, quality gates, artifact retention, and environment promotion through change approval and failure recovery. It helps development and operations teams increase delivery frequency while preserving segregation of duties, complete evidence, and incident response capabilities, and while continuously reviewing process efficiency and stability.