Concepts and standards

• Apps must adhere to Twelve-Factor principles
• All pipelines must follow the common build pipeline
• Use standardised environments
• Testing
• Deployment
• Release
  • Feature flags
• API design
• Branching strategies
• Pull requests
• Making a database schema change

This page was last reviewed on 15 January 2026. It needs to be reviewed again on 15 July 2026 by the page owner platops-build-notices .