Question

Did you ever participated in Prod Deployments?

Answer 1

Yes I have participated, we need to follow the following steps in my point of view

Preparation & Planning : What kind of system/technology was supposed to run on what kind of machine

The specifications regarding the clustering of systems

How all these stand-alone boxes were going to talk to each other in a foolproof manner

Production setup should be documented to bits. It needs to be neat, foolproof, and understandable.

It should have all a system configurations, IP addresses, system specifications, & installation instructions.

It needs to be updated as & when any change is made to the production environment of the system