📖About & Usage

About

The Deployment Tracker is Carol’s logbook for every release that touches live servers. Think of it as a tidy, searchable journal where each entry records what was put into production, when it went live, and who pushed the button. It exists so that Elrond (Elrond, Head of Engineering) and the wider infrastructure team never have to wonder whether a new feature actually made it to users — the tracker is the single source of truth for deployment events.

The tool lives inside Carol’s private infrastructure suite and is available to authorised agents through the Carol Apps console. It works hand in hand with the Pipeline service: once a build passes all quality gates and gets the green light, the Deployment Tracker stamps the exact version, timestamp, and release notes into a permanent record. This means audits, rollbacks, and “hey, did that fix go out?” questions all have a fast, factual answer.

Usage Patterns

The tracker is typically consulted during or immediately after a deployment window. For example, when Pipeline finishes testing a new version of an app and the release is approved, the deployment script writes a summary directly into the tracker — no human has to remember to do it. Later, if a support agent like Sam (Sam) reports strange behaviour in the live site, Elrond can pull up the recent deployments in seconds, spot the change that might be responsible, and coordinate a fix without chasing down chat logs.

It’s not a dashboard you stare at all day; it’s a safety net. You lean on the Deployment Tracker when you need clear evidence of what ran when, especially during incident post-mortems or when preparing release notes for the wider Carolverse. Because the data is structured and timestamped, it also feeds into higher‑level reports about deployment cadence and reliability, giving teams a calm, data‑rich overview of how often the system is actually improving.

🗂️Tabs & Screens

Tab inventory is being built — see CAROL-INI-077 step 7.

👤Owner

📚Recent initiatives

Initiatives that touched this app — a short summary each; open one for the full story.