GK Question

technology medium mcq

Which practice involves automatically rolling back deployments when error rates exceed thresholds?

  1. Canary Release
  2. Automated Rollback
  3. Feature Flags
  4. Chaos Engineering

Answer: Automated Rollback

Automated Rollback uses monitoring alerts (error rate, latency) to trigger immediate reversion to previous stable version. Reduces MTTR and blast radius of bad releases. Implemented via CI/CD pipelines and SRE runbooks. Critical for production reliability practices.

Topic DevOps & SRE
Exam Relevance SSC JE, Banking IT, UPSC