A major provider release lands and forty stacks pin the old version. How do you roll the upgrade forward without a fortnight of fire drills?

Provider upgrades are a scheduled platform product: automatic version inventory, a canary stack inside days, automation that fans out pinned bumps with plan output attached. Estates without this routine get upgraded by deprecation deadlines.

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