Harness Deployment Freezes aka Deployment Blackout Windows

Harness CD's Deployment Freeze feature provides managers with the ability to schedule blackout windows, preventing code deployments during critical business periods and thereby reducing downtime risks that could impact revenue. These scheduled deployment freezes, or blackout windows, ensure that high-stakes business operations, such as retail events like Black Friday or financial firms' peak traffic times, are not disrupted by new code deployments. This feature allows companies to avoid ad-hoc scheduling mishaps and offers a structured approach to managing deployment pipelines. Before this feature, deployment freezes were managed manually, often leading to communication errors. With Harness CD, only admins can set up these freezes via the governance tab under security, ensuring that deployments are paused during specified times, with clear notifications to those attempting to deploy during these periods.