Deployment

Release trains, rollback, and the fleet-wide freeze.

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Release train

Fleet software ships on a weekly train, cut Tuesday 14:00 UTC from main. The train rolls to the staging fleet immediately, to 5% of production robots after 24 hours of clean staging, and to 100% after a further 48 hours.

Rollback

Announce in #fleet-ops with the version you are rolling back from and to.
Run fleetctl rollout undo --stage=all. This is safe to run twice.
Watch the mission-success dashboard for fifteen minutes. If it does not recover, page Platform.

Fleet-wide freeze

A freeze halts all rollouts, including hotfixes. Only the on-call lead may declare one. To declare:

fleetctl freeze set --reason="<incident id>" --ttl=24h

Freezes expire automatically. Extending one requires a second lead's approval.

On-call expectations

Acknowledge pages within ten minutes.
If you are going to be unreachable for more than an hour, hand off explicitly.
Every page gets a post-incident note, even if the resolution was "flapped and recovered".

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