Production Readiness
Teams often declare a service done when code is merged and tests pass. Production readiness is a wider bar: on-call ownership, runbooks for common failure modes, SLO targets with error budgets, and observability in place before the first page. IntegraCI encodes your readiness bar as a scored policy, gates every deployment until the bar is met, and re-evaluates continuously so standards do not erode after launch. The result is a catalog where every service's readiness is visible, measurable, and enforced rather than assumed.
Who this is for
The problem
Most teams have readiness checklists. Few have enforcement. The gap between what the checklist says and what actually ships is where production incidents begin.
Checklists get skipped under deadline pressure
Readiness requirements live in wikis and are reviewed manually before each release. Under pressure, items get marked complete without verification and no gate stops it. The first production incident surfaces what was skipped, usually at the worst possible time.
SLOs exist but do not influence release decisions
Teams set SLO targets early in a service's life and rarely revisit them. There is no connection between the error budget and the decision to ship. Services reach production while burning through reliability headroom with nothing in the way.
Runbook gaps appear during incidents, not before
On-call responders discover that runbooks are missing, outdated, or owned by someone who left. The incident becomes a simultaneous engineering and documentation exercise, which lengthens the outage and raises the blast radius of the next one.
How it works
IntegraCI translates your readiness criteria into scored policy checks, gates deployment on the result, and keeps the score live after services ship.
Scorecards encode the readiness bar
Your platform team defines reliability, on-call, runbook, and observability checks as policy. Every service in the catalog gets a score against those checks. IntegraCI blocks the deployment pipeline until the score meets the configured threshold, with no manual approval step needed for services that already pass. The bar is explicit, not tribal knowledge.
SLOs and error budgets become a deploy signal
IntegraCI connects to your existing observability stack to track SLO performance. When a service is consuming its error budget faster than the policy allows, that signal feeds into the readiness gate. Your teams see reliability headroom before deciding to ship, not after an incident confirms the budget was already gone.
Incidents and runbooks are first-class catalog resources
Runbooks are attached to services in the catalog. IntegraCI tracks incident history per service, links postmortems to the affected record, and flags any readiness checks the incident exposed as inadequate. Responders find the right runbook from the service page during an active incident rather than searching through chat or shared drives.
Governed AI proposes remediations you review and approve
When a service fails a readiness check or an alert fires, IntegraCI's governed AI surfaces a proposed remediation step. A person reviews the proposed change and approves it before anything is applied to infrastructure. The AI assists with analysis and drafting; it does not act autonomously.
The readiness scorecard for payments-api shows two open gaps. Once the team adds the missing runbook and configures a deployment window, the gate clears automatically and the pipeline proceeds without a manual approval step.
What you experience
Your teams work against a live scorecard throughout the service lifecycle, not a checklist they fill in the day before a launch meeting.
Gaps surface during development, not at the release gate
Every service page shows its current scorecard score, which checks pass, and exactly what is missing. Your teams resolve gaps during development sprints, where the cost to fix is low, rather than in the release review meeting, where the pressure to skip is high.
On-call ownership is part of the definition of done
The platform requires an on-call owner and at least one runbook before a service can reach the production gate. Those requirements are policy, not a recommendation. A service without a named owner does not ship, and the team knows that from the first sprint.
Incidents close the readiness loop
After each incident, IntegraCI links the postmortem to the affected service and flags any readiness checks the event exposed as gaps. Your team sees a concrete list of what to add or fix before the next release. The readiness bar improves with operational experience rather than staying static after launch.
Outcomes
Services ship production-ready
The readiness bar is policy and the gate is automated. Services that meet the bar move forward. Services that do not stay in staging until they do. The conversation shifts from 'are we ready?' to 'here is our current score and here is what remains.'
On-call burden drops before it accumulates
Requiring runbooks and on-call ownership before launch means responders have what they need when the first alert fires. Your teams are not writing playbooks during an active incident. Response time shortens because preparation happened earlier in the delivery cycle.
Reliability becomes a managed decision
Error budgets make reliability concrete. Your teams see how much headroom they have before the next deployment creates a reliability risk, and they make release decisions with that context visible rather than discovering the risk after an incident closes.
The proof
The claim holds because of how it is built. Each control runs in the path, records what it did, and maps to the framework you report against.
Policy gate at the deploy step
Scorecard checks run as policy-as-code evaluation at every deployment attempt. If the service score falls below the configured threshold, the pipeline is blocked. The gate result is written to a tamper-evident audit record that includes each check score, the threshold, the policy version, and the identity of the requester.
Continuous scorecard re-evaluation after launch
Readiness is re-evaluated on a configurable schedule after a service ships, not only at deploy time. If a score drops below threshold because a runbook is deleted or an SLO target lapses, the platform raises a finding and flags the service in the compliance view. Drift is visible and tracked, not silently accumulated.
Incident and runbook records under row-level security
Incident records, postmortems, and runbook references are stored with database-enforced row-level security. Only members of the owning tenant can read or modify them. Every write to an incident record or runbook is appended to the tamper-evident audit trail with a timestamp and actor identity.
Maps to
The platform maps your controls to these frameworks. The mapping helps you demonstrate them; it is not a certification.
The artifact is the proof
Service Readiness Evidence Export
An exportable record per service that includes scorecard results, gate decisions, SLO configurations, runbook links, and incident history, suitable for internal audits and change-advisory-board reviews.
Under the hood
This job is not a separate product. It is the platform seen from one angle. Here are the capabilities it runs on.
Scorecards
A running read on every service across the standards that matter
OperateSLOs & Reliability
Make reliability a decision, not a surprise
OperateIncidents & Runbooks
Declare, run, and learn from every incident
OperateObservability
Metrics, logs, and traces, one view per service
GovernPolicy as Code
Write governance rules as versioned, tested code
GovernOnboarding Guardrails
Mandatory or optional controls per tier, enforced everywhere
No. IntegraCI connects to the tools your teams already use for monitoring, alerting, and on-call management. It reads SLO signals and incident data through those tools, gates on the results, and records the decisions. Your tools continue to do the work they are built for.
IntegraCI connects to your existing stack through the connector catalog. If your tool exposes an API, there is a supported or configurable connector path. The platform is not prescriptive about which observability or on-call tools you choose.
You define the criteria. Scorecard checks are authored as policy by your platform team. You choose which checks are required, what thresholds apply per service tier, and which checks are advisory versus blocking. Templates help teams start quickly, but every check is configurable to your standards.
Teams that meet the readiness bar see no friction. The gate is automated and clears without a manual approval step. Because the scorecard is live throughout development, teams with existing reliability practices tend to arrive at the gate already passing.
Define what production-ready means for your teams, encode it as policy, and let IntegraCI enforce it at every deploy and re-evaluate it continuously. Book a call to see how the readiness scorecard maps to your service catalog and on-call structure.