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Production Change Lock

Runway deployments adhere to Production Change Lock (PCL) process for change management.

How it works

Runway relies on change-lock tooling to check for PCL in deployment pipelines. When a deployment is outside the changelock window, the check passes and deployment proceeds:

Production Change Lock Check

When a deployment is within the changelock window, the check fails and deployment is halted.

How to override

Runway supports overriding production change lock check by setting CHANGE_LOCK_OVERRIDE CI variable in deployment project:

Production Change Lock Check Override

The ability for service owners to override for production services is not considered an exemption to hard PCL. As per handbook, exemption requires approval of Sr. Director of Infrastructure Platforms or their designee.