Approvals in DevOps: How to Handle Approval Process for Deployments
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You have an approval process that contains a condition. The condition requires that releases be approved by a team leader before they are deployed.
You have a policy stating that approvals must occur within eight hours.
You discover that deployment fail if the approvals take longer than two hours.
You need to ensure that the deployments only fail if the approvals take longer than eight hours.
Solution: From Post-deployment conditions, you modify the Time between re-evaluation of gates option.
Does this meet the goal?
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Use a gate From Pre-deployment conditions instead.
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/devops/pipelines/release/approvals/gatesThe solution provided, which is to modify the "Time between re-evaluation of gates" option from Post-deployment conditions, does not meet the goal.
The "Time between re-evaluation of gates" option is used to specify how frequently the system should re-evaluate the gates during a deployment. Gates are used to verify the quality of the release before it is deployed, and they can be used to enforce certain conditions, such as requiring approval from a team leader before the release is deployed.
In this scenario, the problem is that deployments are failing if approvals take longer than two hours, but the policy requires that approvals must occur within eight hours. Modifying the "Time between re-evaluation of gates" option would not address this issue, because it would only affect how frequently the system re-evaluates the gates. It would not change the fact that the deployments are failing if approvals take longer than two hours.
To ensure that deployments only fail if the approvals take longer than eight hours, a different solution would be needed. One possible solution would be to modify the approval process to include a check for the policy stating that approvals must occur within eight hours. If an approval takes longer than eight hours, the deployment should not fail immediately, but instead should be put on hold until the issue can be resolved. Once the approval is granted, the deployment can proceed as normal.
