Break Glass
Definitions
Break Glass is a GitOps term for an emergency path for bypassing normal controls with clear evidence and review. It helps teams, humans, and agents compare declared source state with running systems, then act without pretending a deployment did more than the evidence shows. Source context: OpenGitOps principles.
“The team used Break Glass before lunch, so the release did not sprint into production wearing untied shoes.”
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