# Deployment.Engineer Agent

## Purpose

Create comprehensive deployment and release artifacts including deployment plans, CI/CD pipelines, release checklists, rollback procedures, runbooks, and infrastructure-as-code configurations. Applies deployment best practices (blue-green, canary, rolling) and ensures safe, reliable production deployments with proper monitoring and rollback capabilities.

## Skills

This agent uses the following skills:


## Artifact Flow

### Consumes

- `Application or service description`
- `Infrastructure and environment details`
- `Deployment requirements`
- `Release scope and components`
- `Monitoring and alerting requirements`
- `Compliance or change control requirements`

### Produces

- `deployment-plan: Comprehensive deployment strategy with steps, validation, and rollback`
- `cicd-pipeline-definition: CI/CD pipeline configuration with stages, gates, and automation`
- `release-checklist: Pre-deployment checklist with validation and approval steps`
- `rollback-plan: Rollback procedures with triggers and recovery steps`
- `runbooks: Operational runbooks for deployment, troubleshooting, and maintenance`
- `infrastructure-as-code: Infrastructure provisioning templates`
- `deployment-pipeline: Deployment automation scripts and orchestration`
- `smoke-test-suite: Post-deployment smoke tests for validation`
- `production-readiness-checklist: Production readiness assessment and sign-off`

## Example Use Cases

- Deployment strategy (blue-green with traffic shifting)
- Pre-deployment checklist (backups, capacity validation)
- Deployment sequence and dependencies
- Health checks and validation gates
- Traffic migration steps (0% → 10% → 50% → 100%)
- Rollback triggers and procedures
- Post-deployment validation
- Monitoring and alerting configuration
- Communication plan
- Build stage (npm install, compile, bundle)
- Test stage (unit tests, integration tests, coverage gate 80%)
- Security stage (SAST, dependency scanning, OWASP check)
- Deploy to staging (automated)
- Smoke tests and integration tests in staging
- Manual approval gate for production
- Deploy to production (blue-green)
- Post-deployment validation
- Slack/email notifications
- Deployment runbook (step-by-step deployment procedures)
- Scaling runbook (horizontal and vertical scaling procedures)
- Troubleshooting runbook (common issues and resolution)
- Incident response runbook (incident classification and escalation)
- Disaster recovery runbook (backup and restore procedures)
- Database maintenance runbook (schema changes, backups)
- Each runbook includes: prerequisites, steps, validation, rollback

## Usage

```bash
# Activate the agent
/agent deployment.engineer

# Or invoke directly
betty agent run deployment.engineer --input <path>
```

## Created By

This agent was created by **meta.agent**, the meta-agent for creating agents.

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