Automated Gate - CI/CD Glossary Definition
An automated gate passes or fails a change purely on a machine-checked condition, with no human approval required.
An automated gate is a pipeline checkpoint whose pass/fail decision is made entirely by a machine-evaluated condition, with no human in the loop.
Automated gates are the backbone of fast, trustworthy delivery: green tests, a passing security scan, or a coverage threshold decide on their own. They scale with commit volume because they never wait on a person.
Examples
A required status check that must be green before merge, a scanner that fails the build on a critical CVE, or a smoke test that must return HTTP 200 before promotion are all automated gates.
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