Health gating — glossary
TL;DR
Blocking a deploy cut-over until post-release production checks pass.
Key facts
- Term
- Health gating
TL;DR
Health gating means a new release does not receive production traffic until automated checks prove the stack is healthy — not merely that CI passed.
In practice
Checks often include HTTP smoke tests, queue depth, error-rate baselines, and PHP-FPM pool headroom compared to pre-deploy windows.