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DevOps Rollout Plan Generator

Writes a full production rollout plan with checks, rollback, and communications

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Repository
github/awesome-copilot
Stars
40,703
Licence
MIT
Files
1 file

What it does

When you ask the agent to plan a software or infrastructure change, it gathers details about the change, environment, constraints and risks, then produces a structured deployment document. The document covers approvals, preflight checks, step-by-step commands, health signals to watch at set time intervals, rollback triggers and steps, stakeholder messages, post-deployment tasks, contingency plans for specific failures, and contacts. It is a planning template and writing aid; it does not deploy anything itself.

Great for

  • Engineers or SRE teams preparing a change request or release runbook
  • Team leads who want a consistent rollout checklist for Kubernetes, VM, serverless or container changes
  • People new to deployment who need a starting structure they can then adapt and verify

Skip it if

  • Executing live production deployments unattended: the skill only writes a plan, and generated commands (kubectl, rollback steps) are unverified for your system and could cause outages if run blindly
  • Regulated or high-stakes changes that need sign-off from compliance or security: the generated approvals and contacts are placeholders that must be validated by your organisation

Try asking

  • “Create a rollout plan for upgrading our payments service from v2.3 to v2.4 on Kubernetes with a 15-minute downtime window”
  • “Write a rollback procedure and go/no-go checklist for a database schema migration in production”
  • “Draft stakeholder communications for a staging-to-production release next Tuesday morning”
Step-by-step guide: how to use DevOps Rollout Plan GeneratorInstall, first run, examples, tips and FAQs

Install in 3 steps

  1. 1

    Download the skill

    The ZIP contains the 1 original files, the MIT licence and an attribution note.

    devops-rollout-plan.zip
  2. 2

    Add it to your agent

    Claude Code (all projects)

    mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills && unzip devops-rollout-plan.zip -d ~/.claude/skills/

    Claude Code / Agent SDK (this project only)

    mkdir -p .claude/skills && unzip devops-rollout-plan.zip -d .claude/skills/

    Claude apps (web/desktop): Settings → Capabilities → Skills → Upload skill, and choose the ZIP.

  3. 3

    Ask for the task

    No special command needed — the agent reads the skill's description and loads it when your request matches. Try one of the prompts above.

Get better results

  • Provide concrete details up front (infrastructure type, downtime window, blast radius, data migrations) so the plan is specific rather than generic.
  • Have an engineer review every command and rollback step against your real tooling and test the rollback in a non-production environment before relying on it.
  • Ask for a simplified plan for staging or development; the skill is designed to scale detail to risk level.

What's inside

  • SKILL.md

Redistributed unmodified from github/awesome-copilot under the MIT licence. The assessment was drafted with AI from the skill's files on 2026-10-29. Skills can instruct your agent to run code — read SKILL.md and any scripts before installing.