Promotion

Promotion is the process of marking an immutable, versioned artifact as being ready for deployment to the next class of environment.

What is used to promote?

The two main mechanisms for promotion are:

Tests e.g. functional or non-functional tests
Stability in an environment e.g. run a longer soak tests in a stage environment and check alerts or canary deployments

Both are possible with the Core Platform P2P, and test based promotion is available out of the box.

The Core Platform uses Container Registry artifact copying as the promotion mechanism.

The steps are:

After Fast Feedback on the main branch p2p-promote-to-extended-test is executed
After Extended Test the p2p-promote-to-prod is executed

These steps may be overriden if you want additional or different functionality.