{
  "id": "production_deployment_gate",
  "label": "Production Deployment Gate Canonical",
  "phase": "phase-09",
  "category": "delivery_layer",
  "status": "ACTIVE_DH_MIRROR",
  "purpose": "Control promotion from validated state into production-facing state.",
  "function": "Require release scope, validation, rollback, migration evidence, security clearance and approval before production promotion.",
  "technology_requirements": [
    {
      "technology": "Production Deployment Gate",
      "required_for": "Control promotion from validated state into production-facing state.",
      "required_by_phase": "phase-09",
      "required_by_category": "production_deployment_gate",
      "required_by_buckets": [
        "Prerequisites",
        "Installation",
        "Configuration",
        "Validation",
        "Observable Evidence",
        "Failure Modes & Recovery",
        "Completion & Promotion"
      ],
      "expected_version": "MISSING until Production Deployment Gate is implemented and validated in the future Execution & Monitoring Panel",
      "validation_command": "MISSING until production_deployment_gate can prove scope, evidence, execution state and promotion decision",
      "evidence_path": "/home/yeff/public_html/devon/canon/execution/state/dh_sources/production_deployment_gate.json",
      "status_source": "Documentation Hub + future Execution & Monitoring Panel",
      "blocking_if_missing": true,
      "failure_impact": "Production is not a larger sandbox. Once a change crosses this gate, evidence, rollback and approval become operational commitments. This category stops validated code from becoming exposed service until the full release risk is visible."
    }
  ],
  "depends_on": [
    "release_governance",
    "test_validation_runner",
    "backup_rollback"
  ],
  "used_by": [
    "operator_panel",
    "release_governance",
    "disaster_recovery"
  ],
  "overview": {
    "summary": "Production Deployment Gate Canonical owns the final crossing point into production-facing state. Its authority is not to decide whether a patch is clever; it decides whether the system is allowed to expose that patch to real operational consequence.",
    "function": "FUNCTION: Block production promotion until release scope, validation result, rollback readiness, migration status, security exposure, operator approval and evidence references are present.",
    "system_position": "Release Governance defines the package. Test & Validation Runner proves runtime behavior. Backup & Rollback proves recovery. Database & Migration Governance proves data safety. This gate is the executive yes/no surface for delivery.",
    "failure_impact": "Production is not a larger sandbox. Once a change crosses this gate, evidence, rollback and approval become operational commitments. This category stops validated code from becoming exposed service until the full release risk is visible."
  },
  "failure_impact": "Production is not a larger sandbox. Once a change crosses this gate, evidence, rollback and approval become operational commitments. This category stops validated code from becoming exposed service until the full release risk is visible."
}