Emergency Patch
Definitions
Emergency Patch is a GitOps term for a small urgent change applied to reduce active risk. 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 Emergency Patch before lunch, so the release did not sprint into production wearing untied shoes.”
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