Playbooks & production notes
Deployment
Deployment guidance for separating environments, protecting production data, managing migrations, and shipping AI-built apps with a safe way back.
Environments, secrets, migrations, and having a way back when a deploy goes wrong. For founders who push straight to production because that is the only environment their AI tool gave them. Start with "One Database, No Staging: A Deploy Set to Break", then "Environment Variables Explained".
Deployment
How to run database migrations on deploy: the order, backward compatibility, and what to do when one runs out of order
Deployment
How to speed up CI build times: measuring the release path and getting a deploy under ten minutes
Deployment
Man in the middle prevention for a web app: how traffic gets intercepted, what HTTPS already stops, and the settings that close the rest
Deployment
Open source feature flags and kill switches: turning a broken feature off without a deploy
Deployment
What are preview deployments: a reviewable URL for every pull request, with test data only
Deployment
What is a rollback plan? The page, the database half, and a drill you have actually run
Deployment
What is Renovate bot, and how to run automated dependency updates with checks that actually run
Deployment
Add https to website traffic and keep it there: HSTS, a CAA record, a locked registrar, the DNS export and the TLS scan
Deployment
CI CD best practices for one repo: lint, typecheck, build and tests on every pull request before anything merges
Deployment
CI CD security best practices for a small app: permissions, secrets in CI, and what is worth scanning
Deployment
DevOps for startups with one app: the 13 controls of a release path you can trust
Deployment
GitHub branch protection for a small team: required checks, reviews, a PR template and a contributing guide
Deployment
How to self host an exported app: your own repository, your own hosting, and no step that needs the builder
Deployment
The production deployment checklist for one app: what to check before, during and after every release
Deployment
The release readiness checklist for one app: an automated staging deploy, a promotion gate, and the check after
Deployment
A Customer Wants Your App on Their Own Servers: What They Are Actually Asking For
Deployment
Lovable Publish Not Working: The Six Failures, and the Domain That Points Nowhere
Deployment