turntorelease

Turntorelease is a term used in software release management to describe a streamlined workflow that converts a development artifact into a production release with minimal friction. The concept emphasizes a predictable, repeatable release candidate and is often associated with agile or DevOps environments that prioritize rapid delivery while maintaining quality.

In practice, turntorelease involves selecting a release scope, consolidating changes into a release candidate, running automated tests and validations, applying release gates, packaging artifacts, and deploying to production. The process typically relies on automated CI/CD pipelines, versioned artifacts, and feature toggles to decouple deployment from feature activation.

Turntorelease seeks to reduce cycle time and improve release predictability by limiting work in process, standardizing packaging, and enforcing reproducible builds. It complements approaches like continuous delivery, trunk-based development, and release engineering. Risks include over-automation, gate bottlenecks, and misalignment between development and operations teams if governance is weak.

Organizations may adapt turntorelease with different release cadences, including scheduled releases or event-driven releases. Production strategies such as blue-green deployment or canary releases can be used within a turntorelease framework to mitigate risk during rollout.

Related concepts include continuous delivery, release engineering, feature flags, blue-green deployment, and canary releases.