Promotion Criteria - CI/CD Glossary Definition
Promotion criteria are the conditions a build must meet to move from one environment to the next, like passing integration tests and a healthy canary.
Promotion criteria are the conditions a build must meet to be promoted from one environment to the next (for example, staging to production), such as passing integration tests and a clean canary.
In a promotion-based pipeline the same artifact moves up through environments rather than being rebuilt. Promotion criteria decide when it earns each step, keeping lower environments as a filter for production.
Typical criteria
Green integration suite in staging, error rate below baseline during a canary, no open blocker incidents, and often a deployment gate approval before the production step.
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