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Complete production deployment checklist for TwinMind integrations.
Use when preparing to deploy, auditing production readiness,
or ensuring best practices are followed.
Trigger with phrases like "twinmind production", "deploy twinmind",
"twinmind go-live checklist", "twinmind production ready".
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TwinMind Production Checklist
Overview
Comprehensive checklist for deploying TwinMind integrations to production.
Prerequisites
Development and staging environments tested
API credentials for production
Infrastructure provisioned
Team roles assigned
Production Readiness Checklist
1. Authentication & Security
## Authentication
- [ ] Production API key generated (separate from dev/staging)
- [ ] API key stored in secrets manager (not env vars)
- [ ] API key rotation procedure documented
- [ ] Webhook secrets configured
- [ ] All OAuth tokens refreshed and valid
## Security
- [ ] HTTPS enforced on all endpoints
- [ ] Webhook signature verification enabled
- [ ] CORS configured correctly
- [ ] Rate limiting implemented
- [ ] Input validation on all endpoints
- [ ] SQL injection protection verified
- [ ] XSS protection enabled
- [ ] CSP headers configured
2. Data & Privacy
## Data Protection
- [ ] Transcripts encrypted at rest (AES-256)
- [ ] PII redaction enabled and tested
- [ ] Data retention policies configured
- [ ] Backup encryption verified
- [ ] Data residency requirements met
## Privacy Compliance
- [ ] GDPR compliance verified (if applicable)
- [ ] User consent flow implemented
- [ ] Data deletion API integrated
- [ ] Privacy policy updated
- [ ] Cookie consent banner (if applicable)
## Audit Trail
- [ ] Audit logging enabled for all operations
- [ ] Log retention configured
- [ ] Sensitive data excluded from logs
- [ ] Log access restricted
3. Infrastructure ## Compute
- [ ] Auto-scaling configured
- [ ] Health checks enabled
- [ ] Graceful shutdown implemented
- [ ] Resource limits set (CPU, memory)
- [ ] Container security scanned
## Networking
- [ ] Load balancer configured
- [ ] TLS 1.3 enforced
- [ ] DNS records verified
- [ ] CDN configured (if applicable)
- [ ] Firewall rules reviewed
## Storage
- [ ] Database backups automated
- [ ] Storage encryption enabled
- [ ] Disaster recovery plan tested
- [ ] Data migration scripts ready
4. Monitoring & Observability ## Metrics
- [ ] Prometheus/Datadog metrics configured
- [ ] Custom TwinMind metrics added:
- [ ] twinmind_transcriptions_total
- [ ] twinmind_transcription_duration_seconds
- [ ] twinmind_errors_total
- [ ] twinmind_api_latency_seconds
- [ ] Dashboards created
## Alerting
- [ ] Alert rules configured:
- [ ] Error rate > 5%
- [ ] P95 latency > 5s
- [ ] Rate limit warnings
- [ ] API availability
- [ ] On-call rotation set up
- [ ] Escalation policy defined
## Logging
- [ ] Structured logging implemented
- [ ] Log levels configured (INFO in prod)
- [ ] Log aggregation set up
- [ ] Log-based alerts configured
## Tracing
- [ ] Distributed tracing enabled
- [ ] Trace sampling configured
- [ ] Trace retention set
5. Error Handling ## Error Recovery
- [ ] Retry logic with exponential backoff
- [ ] Circuit breaker pattern implemented
- [ ] Fallback behavior defined
- [ ] Dead letter queue for failed webhooks
- [ ] Error notification system
## Graceful Degradation
- [ ] Offline mode behavior defined
- [ ] Cached data fallback
- [ ] User-friendly error messages
- [ ] Status page integration
6. Performance ## Optimization
- [ ] Response caching configured
- [ ] Database queries optimized
- [ ] Connection pooling enabled
- [ ] Async processing for heavy tasks
- [ ] CDN for static assets
## Load Testing
- [ ] Load tests performed
- [ ] Peak traffic simulated
- [ ] Breaking point identified
- [ ] Auto-scaling verified
- [ ] Performance baselines documented
7. Deployment ## CI/CD
- [ ] Build pipeline configured
- [ ] Automated tests passing
- [ ] Security scanning integrated
- [ ] Deployment automation ready
- [ ] Rollback procedure tested
## Release Process
- [ ] Blue-green or canary deployment
- [ ] Feature flags configured
- [ ] Database migrations automated
- [ ] Smoke tests defined
- [ ] Release notes prepared
8. Documentation ## Technical Docs
- [ ] API documentation current
- [ ] Architecture diagrams updated
- [ ] Runbook created
- [ ] Troubleshooting guide ready
## Operational Docs
- [ ] Incident response plan
- [ ] Escalation contacts
- [ ] Vendor contact info
- [ ] SLA documentation
Pre-Launch Verification Script #!/bin/bash
# pre-launch-check.sh
echo "TwinMind Production Pre-Launch Check"
echo "====================================="
# Check environment
echo -n "Checking NODE_ENV... "
if [ "$NODE_ENV" = "production" ]; then
echo "OK (production)"
else
echo "WARNING: NODE_ENV=$NODE_ENV"
fi
# Check API key
echo -n "Checking API key... "
if [ -n "$TWINMIND_API_KEY" ]; then
PREFIX=${TWINMIND_API_KEY:0:10}
echo "OK ($PREFIX...)"
else
echo "FAIL: TWINMIND_API_KEY not set"
fi
# Test API connectivity
echo -n "Testing API connectivity... "
HEALTH=$(curl -s -o /dev/null -w "%{http_code}" \
-H "Authorization: Bearer $TWINMIND_API_KEY" \
https://api.twinmind.com/v1/health)
if [ "$HEALTH" = "200" ]; then
echo "OK"
else
echo "FAIL: HTTP $HEALTH"
fi
# Check webhook secret
echo -n "Checking webhook secret... "
if [ -n "$TWINMIND_WEBHOOK_SECRET" ]; then
echo "OK"
else
echo "WARNING: TWINMIND_WEBHOOK_SECRET not set"
fi
# Check encryption key
echo -n "Checking encryption key... "
if [ -n "$TWINMIND_ENCRYPTION_KEY" ]; then
KEY_LEN=${#TWINMIND_ENCRYPTION_KEY}
if [ "$KEY_LEN" -ge 64 ]; then
echo "OK (256-bit)"
else
echo "WARNING: Key too short"
fi
else
echo "WARNING: TWINMIND_ENCRYPTION_KEY not set"
fi
# Check database
echo -n "Checking database... "
if [ -n "$DATABASE_URL" ]; then
echo "OK"
else
echo "FAIL: DATABASE_URL not set"
fi
echo ""
echo "Pre-launch check complete."
Post-Launch Verification // scripts/post-launch-verify.ts
async function verifyProduction() {
const checks = [
{ name: 'API Health', fn: checkApiHealth },
{ name: 'Database', fn: checkDatabase },
{ name: 'Transcription', fn: testTranscription },
{ name: 'Webhook', fn: testWebhook },
{ name: 'Metrics', fn: checkMetrics },
];
console.log('Post-Launch Verification');
console.log('========================');
for (const check of checks) {
try {
await check.fn();
console.log(`[PASS] ${check.name}`);
} catch (error) {
console.log(`[FAIL] ${check.name}: ${error.message}`);
}
}
}
async function checkApiHealth() {
const response = await fetch('https://api.twinmind.com/v1/health', {
headers: { 'Authorization': `Bearer ${process.env.TWINMIND_API_KEY}` },
});
if (!response.ok) throw new Error(`HTTP ${response.status}`);
}
async function testTranscription() {
// Test with a known audio sample
const client = getTwinMindClient();
const result = await client.transcribe('https://example.com/test-audio.mp3');
if (!result.id) throw new Error('No transcript ID returned');
}
// Run verification
verifyProduction();
Rollback Plan ## Rollback Procedure
### Immediate Rollback (< 5 minutes)
1. Trigger deployment rollback via CI/CD
2. Verify previous version is running
3. Confirm health checks passing
### Database Rollback (if needed)
1. Stop application traffic
2. Run migration rollback script
3. Verify data integrity
4. Resume traffic
### Communication
1. Update status page
2. Notify affected users
3. Create incident report
### Post-Rollback
1. Identify root cause
2. Create fix
3. Test in staging
4. Schedule re-deployment
Output
Complete production checklist
Pre-launch verification script
Post-launch verification tests
Rollback procedure
Error Handling Issue Impact Mitigation API key invalid Service down Verify key in staging first Missing metrics Blind spots Test dashboards pre-launch No rollback plan Extended outage Document and test rollback Inadequate alerts Delayed response Test alert routes
Resources
Next Steps For upgrading between tiers, see twinmind-upgrade-migration.
