Bright Data Production Readiness Gate

Overview

Make production promotion a fail-closed evidence decision. A green connectivity test is insufficient without target authorization, schema and data controls, secret ownership, backpressure, observability, and a tested rollback.

Prerequisites

• A release candidate tied to an approved workload manifest
• Staging results for success and documented failure classes
• Named service, data, security, finance, and rollback owners

Instructions

Step 1: Validate authority

Read approvals and Grep runtime configuration for unlisted targets, fields, products, zones, or delivery destinations. Verify public-data scope and recipient and retention decisions.

Step 2: Validate controls

Confirm secret-manager binding, environment isolation, egress allowlists, redirect denial, byte, record, and job ceilings, adaptive backpressure, redacted telemetry, and idempotent processing.

Step 3: Exercise failure paths

Write or Edit tests for revoked credentials, policy 403, 429, provider 5xx, snapshot failure or expiry, malformed schema, oversized delivery, duplicate delivery, and downstream outage.

Step 4: Canary and decide

Run a bounded approved canary through the deployment workflow. Compare authorization, success, error, latency, cost, and data-quality thresholds; promote only with a rollback receipt.

Tool Discipline

Use Read and Grep for release-evidence inspection. Use Write and Edit for missing tests, manifests, runbooks, and the decision record. This skill does not change production credentials, zones, traffic, or delivery destinations.

Output

• Pass or fail matrix for authority, safety, reliability, cost, and data
• Canary metrics and explicit promotion decision
• Rollback trigger, procedure, owner, and proof

Examples

Release one worker with a low job and byte ceiling and an approved test target. Promote only after duplicate delivery, policy denial, secret redaction, schema quarantine, and rollback drills all produce their expected receipts.

Error Handling

Resources

• Acceptable use policy
• Proxy error catalog
• Network status
• Scraper data delivery