Improve the efficiency, reliability, and maintainability of HyperShift release processes through incremental refinements. This includes reducing manual steps, improving documentation, and addressing
technical debt that impacts release velocity and quality.

Epic Acceptance Criteria

• Key pain points in release process identified and addressed
• Manual release steps reduced by 30%
• Release runbooks and documentation updated and accurate
• Technical debt items preventing release improvements resolved

Scope

In Scope

• Streamlining manual release steps
• Improving release documentation and maintenance documentation
• Addressing technical debt in release workflows
• Enhancing release validation and testing
• Improving release communication and tracking
• Tooling improvements for release tasks
• Post-release retrospective improvements

Out of Scope

• Complete release automation (future work)
• Changes to product release schedule
• Major architectural changes to release infrastructure