Gera Tools

New Microservice Launch Checklist Builder

Build a readiness checklist before launching a new microservice to production

Generates a pre-launch checklist for microservices covering health endpoint, auth, logging, metrics, rate limiting, circuit breaker, graceful shutdown, and runbook. Toggle the items you need and copy the markdown.

What is a production readiness checklist?

It is a list of operational and reliability requirements a service must meet before it serves real traffic. It typically covers health checks, auth, observability, rate limiting, failure handling, and an on-call runbook so the team knows the service can run safely in production.

The New Microservice Launch Checklist Builder turns the messy, easy-to-forget work of shipping a service into a structured pre-launch list. A microservice that compiles is not the same as a microservice that survives production — it needs health checks, auth, observability, failure handling, and a runbook. This tool assembles a readiness checklist you can paste into a launch ticket and tick off item by item.

How it works

The builder groups production-readiness requirements into eight standard categories: a health endpoint so orchestrators can route traffic, authentication and authorization so requests are verified, structured logging with request IDs, metrics for latency and error rate, rate limiting on public endpoints, a circuit breaker around remote dependencies, graceful shutdown to drain in-flight work, and a runbook for on-call. Each category expands into concrete check items. You toggle the categories your service needs, and the tool renders a markdown checklist with - [ ] boxes that GitHub, GitLab, and most wikis render as tickable tasks.

Tips and example

  • Run it as a gate, not a formality. Treat unchecked critical items (health, auth, graceful shutdown) as blockers for the launch, not nice-to-haves.
  • Attach it to the PR. Pasting the checklist into the launch pull request makes the review conversation concrete and gives reviewers a shared definition of done.
  • Keep the runbook honest. A runbook that only exists at launch and is never updated is worse than none — link it and assign an owner.

Example: for a service named payments-api, the builder emits a heading ## payments-api — Production Readiness followed by check items such as - [ ] /health returns 200 and is exempt from auth and - [ ] Graceful shutdown drains in-flight requests on SIGTERM.