Production handover
A hosted app is not handed over until someone else can operate it.
Production handover should cover accounts, domains, DNS, SSL, environment variables, deployment, rollback, logs, backups, monitoring, renewal dates, and incident contacts.
AccessOwner roles
DeployRunbook
RecoverBackups
Production handover is where many projects quietly fail. The app may be live, but only one developer knows how to deploy, where logs live, how SSL renews, who owns DNS, or whether backups restore.
Official source note: Google's SRE book frames monitoring as essential for understanding service behavior and reliability, which is why production handover should include practical monitoring ownership: Monitoring Distributed Systems.
Handover workflow
01Document account ownership and access boundaries02Record deployment, logs, backups, and monitoring03Assign incident owners and renewal reminders
