release management

Kind precedence orders manifests, hooks jump the queue with their own weights and delete policies, and --atomic plus --wait turn hope into rollback. Split charts along blast radius, not folder aesthetics.

Deployment and release are two decisions, not one. The flag patterns that buy you instant reversibility, and the retirement discipline most teams skip.

A freeze enforced by email is a suggestion. Tier services, put the window in deploy tooling, price exceptions honestly, and judge the policy by incidents prevented.