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Potential change-freeze windows

• Thursday, October 2nd: Mahatma Gandhi Jayanti and coincides with Dussehra.
• Saturday, October 11th - Sunday, October 12th: October 11th is a regional holiday in many states, Saturday and October 12th is a Bank Holiday across all of India for Dussehra.
• Monday, October 20th: Diwali/Deepavali

If your Amazon ECS (Elastic Container Service) rollout causes performance regressions, like higher task latency, container crashes, or longer deployment times, your rollback and communications plan should focus on rapid environment recovery, clear visibility, and calm communication.

ECS handles this natively, therefore always begin a rollback by maintaining the versioning of earlier ECS task definitions and service configurations. One command (aws ecs update-service --force-new-deployment --task-definition ) will then allow you to immediately redeploy the most recent stable version. In the event that your roll-out required a change to the AMI, Docker image, or networking configuration (such as moving to a new cluster or Fargate), save snapshots and image digests so you can easily go back to what was functioning. Additionally, be prepared with CloudWatch dashboards and auto-scaling alerts to identify CPU, memory, or throttle surges early. If thresholds are maintained, a rollback should occur immediately.

Don't allow quiet to generate fear on the communications side. You should immediately post a brief message in your internal DevOps or issue Slack channels, such as: We're seeing elevated latency after the ECS roll-out reverting to the last stable task definition. No impact on customers or data loss is anticipated. If production users are impacted by the regression, then update your status page. Keep communications cool, factual, and time-bound; include the beginning and ending times of the rollback.
Once stability has returned, plan a brief post-mortem analysis and note what went wrong (e.g., task networking, service discovery, container image size), what early warnings were overlooked, and which metrics will be checked again later (e.g., CPU reservation accuracy, deployment length, or p99 latency). The objective is to demonstrate control by communicating clearly, learning methodically, and rolling back quickly so that the next ECS update goes more smoothly.

Potential change-freeze windows

• Thursday, October 2nd: Mahatma Gandhi Jayanti and coincides with Dussehra.
• Saturday, October 11th - Sunday, October 12th: October 11th is a regional holiday in many states, Saturday and October 12th is a Bank Holiday across all of India for Dussehra.
• Monday, October 20th: Diwali/Deepavali

When you’re rolling out something as critical as an NSDL integration/update (for PAN, KYC, or depository workflows), you absolutely need a rollback + comms playbook ready. The key is balancing business continuity (users can still transact/verify) with compliance (regulators don’t get any surprises).

Rollback Plan

• Dual-path deployment
• Keep the old NSDL integration/API path warm in parallel. Don’t decommission it right away.
• Use a config/feature flag toggle so you can switch traffic back in minutes.
• Graceful fallback
• For PAN/KYC checks → route back to cached data or the old API if the new roll-out starts spiking latency.
• For depository actions → queue requests and replay them once stable, instead of hard-failing.
• Rollback triggers
• Define thresholds: e.g. >5% failures or >2x latency sustained for 15 minutes = automatic rollback.
• Have automation ready (scripts, pipelines) so rollback isn’t a manual firefight.
• Snapshot state before cutover
• Capture config, mapping tables, and last successful sync state.
• That way, if you roll back, you don’t lose track of partially processed filings.

Comms Plan
Internal

• Pre-rollout: brief Ops/Support teams that a new NSDL path is going live, and how to identify related errors.
• During rollback: notify on-call + product teams via Slack/Teams channel with: Rolling back NSDL rollout due to X% failure. ETA: 10 minutes.
• Post-rollback: share metrics showing stability restored.

External (customers/users)

• If visible to end-users (like failed PAN/KYC checks), post a short status message:
• We are experiencing slower than normal verification times due to an infra update. We’ve rolled back and services are returning to normal.
• Keep updates short + timestamped until fully green.
• Regulators/Partners
• If the NSDL roll-out is compliance-linked, have a template mail ready:
• During testing of our NSDL integration update, we detected performance regressions. The update has been rolled back, and all transactions are being processed via the prior stable path. No data loss occurred.

"If you’re rolling out FluxCD and worried about performance regressions (sync loops thrashing, API server load, degraded cluster latency), the smart move is to treat it like any infra rollout: have a rollback path and a comms plan ready before you hit go.

Rollback Plan
Canary rollout first

• Don’t switch your whole fleet to FluxCD on day one.
• Start with 1–2 non-critical clusters or namespaces, measure sync latency + cluster API usage.

Keep old deployment mechanism in parallel

• If you were using Helmfile, Argo, or even raw kubectl apply, don’t rip it out yet.
• Keep manifests/templates in sync so you can flip back with minimal drift.

Quick kill switch

• Namespace-level: delete the FluxCD controllers (flux-system namespace) to stop reconcilers instantly.
• Git-level: freeze by locking or archiving the Git repo branch FluxCD is watching.

Rollback path

• Maintain a last known good deployment manifest snapshot from before Flux took over.
• In case of regressions, redeploy from that snapshot with your old toolchain.

Monitoring gates

• Put SLOs on sync duration, API server QPS, pod scheduling latency.
• If thresholds breach, auto-disable sync via feature flag (e.g. remove cluster from FluxCD config).

Comms Plan

• Internal (Dev/Eng teams)
• Pre-rollout: announce that Flux is going live in pilot scope, what changes in workflow, and what metrics will be tracked.
• During rollout: post regular updates in an #infra or #release Slack channel.
• If rollback happens: clearly state Flux disabled, old deploy pipeline re-enabled, ETA for fix.
• External (if customer-facing impact possible)
• Status page template ready: We are investigating elevated latency due to recent infra change. Rollback in progress.
• Keep updates short but regular (every 30–60 mins).
• Exec/Stakeholder updates
• Non-technical brief: New deployment engine tested, saw API server regression, rolled back to stable. No data loss.
• Share metrics proving rollback restored baseline performance.