Control Packs · CHG-002 · v1.0.0

Deployment Rollback and Recovery

Define how a production deployment detects failure, stops safely, rolls back, and reconciles state.

Status: review · Review: not independent. This is design guidance; review status does not establish independent verification or compliance.

What this safeguard addresses

Make deployment failure states explicit through health checks, bounded rollout, rollback, reconciliation, and operator-visible escalation.

  • Deployment failure leaves production in an unknown stateA change partially applies across services or dependencies without a tested rollback, reconciliation, or operator handoff.
Versioned applicability rule
{
  "all": [
    {
      "characteristic": "PRODUCTION_MODIFICATION",
      "equals": true
    },
    {
      "characteristic": "EXTERNAL_DEPENDENCY",
      "equals": true
    }
  ]
}

Decisions for the project owner

Leave a decision open when its value is unknown. Suggested values become confirmed only through an explicit user decision.

  • What is the recovery path when a production deployment partially applies?Rollback, forward fix, and operator hold have different safety and data consequences.CHG-002-Q1 · choice

Requirements for the coding agent

  • CHG-002-R1Use pre-deployment checks, staged rollout, health-based stop conditions, tested rollback or forward recovery, and reconciliation for dependent state.

Tests and evidence to retain

  • DEPLOYMENT_ROLLBACK_TESTExercise preflight failure, staged failure, dependency outage, rollback, forward recovery, and reconciliation.
  • configuration_or_policy
  • implementation_location
  • test_result
  • telemetry_definition
  • operational_procedure

Passing a published example shows that example's behavior. A coding agent's implementation report remains a claim until its evidence is independently checked.

Related guidance

  • CM-3 · Configuration Change ControlNIST_SP_800_53_5_2_0 · partially addressesStaged rollout and health-based stop conditions support controlled change; they do not cover complete configuration governance.
  • CP-10 · System RecoveryNIST_SP_800_53_5_2_0 · partially addressesRollback, forward recovery, and reconciliation address a defined deployment-recovery scenario; they do not cover all contingencies.
  • IR-4 · Incident HandlingNIST_SP_800_53_5_2_0 · informsDeployment failure handling informs incident response coordination; it is not an incident-handling program.

Mappings indicate contextual relevance or partial support. They do not establish equivalence, certification, government endorsement, or complete framework implementation.

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