Quick question: does anyone have a template or resource for a maintenance runbook that covers both system steps and user comms? I’m running AWS SSM Patch Manager with a second-Tuesday 02:00 UTC window and 10% rolling batches, plus Slack/Statuspage notices, and I’d love to compare checklists to tighten our rollback and validation steps?
I feel you on this — compiling checklists can be a pain. For the 10% rolling batches, I’ve found it helps to have a separate validation checklist handy, just to keep things tight and organized. Have you looked into automating some of the notifications?
, I totally get that! For our patch windows at 02:00 UTC, I started using a quick checklist before push to verify backups and rollback triggers… It’s helped a ton with validation under pressure.