Practical game day scenarios for CI/CD: broken rollbacks, permission issues, and slow feedback loops—and how we fixed them.
Most teams say they have a CI/CD pipeline; fewer can explain what happens when a deploy half-fails on a Friday night.
We simulated a bad deploy by merging a PR that intentionally broke a health check.
Observed:
Fixes:
```yaml jobs: deploy_prod: steps: - run: ./scripts/deploy.sh rollback_prod: if: failure() steps: - run: ./scripts/rollback.sh ```
In another exercise, we revoked a service account permission in staging.
Changes:
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