# Control your release

DevFeed: [Control your release](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/control-your-release-27289.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://blog.pchudzik.com/201712/checklist-txt/>)

Published: 2017-12-07T00:00:00Z

Content type: tutorial

Language: en

Sources: [Paweł Chudzik](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/pawe-chudzik.md>)

Topics: [configuration](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/configuration.md>), [Deployment](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/deployment.md>), [Continuous Delivery (CD)](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/continuous-delivery.md>), [Code review](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/code-review.md>), [Automation](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/automation.md>), [Containers](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/containers.md>)

Tags: [automation](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/automation.md>), [code-review](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/code-review.md>), [configuration](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/configuration.md>), [containers](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/containers.md>), [continuous-delivery](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/continuous-delivery.md>), [deployment](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/deployment.md>), [release-notes](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/release-notes.md>), [repository](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/repository.md>), [server](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/server.md>)

## AI overview

This article recommends maintaining an up-to-date RELEASE_CHECKLIST.md file in the code repository and reviewing it with code changes. The checklist records manual steps required before, during, and after a release while teams work toward automating deployment and continuous delivery.

## Source excerpt

Imagine the situation when you've just released something on production and deployment went fine. You've just sent release notes and went out to grab a coffee. Once you are back you see an email with information that feature team have been working on for past 3 sprints doesn't work at all. Turns out you forgot to change something in production server configuration. In this post, I'm going to present the simplest idea which will help you to avoid this kind of issues. Read more