Phase 7: CI/CD Pipelines for AI Code · 50 min · GitHub Actions · GitHub Releases · SBOM

Deployment Gates & Release Quality

Block releases on quality failures. 0 critical SAST, mutation > 80%, coverage > 90%.

Hiring signal: Engineers who can implement deployment gates and release quality thresholds demonstrate release management expertise.

What you will learn

Implement deployment gates that block releases on quality failures
Enforce release quality thresholds: 0 critical SAST, mutation > 80%, coverage > 90%
Generate release artifacts with SBOM and audit trail
Configure release pipelines with quality gates before deployment

The Problem

CI gates (Lessons 1-2) prevent bad code from being merged. But deployment gates prevent bad releases from reaching production. This lesson covers deployment gates, release quality thresholds, and release artifacts with SBOM.

Release Quality Thresholds

Gate	Threshold	Rationale
SAST critical findings	0	No critical security vulnerabilities in production
SAST high findings	0	No high severity vulnerabilities in production
Mutation score	> 80%	Tests catch 80%+ of behavioral bugs
Test coverage	> 90%	90%+ of code paths are tested
SCA critical/high	0	No vulnerable dependencies in production
AI review critical	0	No critical issues from AI code review
Lockfile hash match	100%	No package substitution
SBOM generated	Yes	Inventory for incident response

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