Long-form companion to the v1.0.2 blog. Release notes and product context: Workstation Ring Promoter · ringpromoter.com · GitHub v1.0.2.
youtu.be/hNU4sWxrDFk · Happy Friday release — 25 September 2026
1. Ring Promoter v1.0.2 — what shipped
From the official release notes on GitHub and the “CI/CD Orbit and Lanes, side by side” section on ringpromoter.com:
| Surface | What you get |
|---|---|
| Orbit Deployer Board | Earth at centre as live users. Promotion rings are orbits — PROD closest in, then ACC, TEST, INT as outer spokes. Newest versions solid; older hollow. Gates and app roster ride alongside. |
| Lanes (NEW) | APP × INT / TEST / ACC / PROD matrix. Same version across rings stretches as one pill. Prod lag is a visible break — no hunting per-app pages. |
| Descent and stage | Descent treats rings as orbits (Lanes fallback). Cinematic Earth stage: more sky, quieter labels, collision-aware leaders. |
| Ops since v1.0.1 | In-place ring restart, external QA agent scaffolding, multi-arch images, longer Helm waits for cold pulls, clearer workstation secrets for production password gates. |
2. Orbit vs Lanes — when to use which
- Orbit — pause here for the fleet: which apps climbed how far toward prod, with gates visible beside the stage.
- Lanes — flip here for the matrix: parity across environments, or an obvious split when prod still has to earn the hop.
Both are companions to the walkthrough on ringpromoter.com — not a second source of truth. The control plane still enforces one ring at a time, source health, target health, auto-rollback, and history.
3. The protocol underneath (unchanged)
- One ring at a time — promote always targets the next ring; skipping is impossible by design.
- Source must prove it — live health on the source gates every hop.
- Target must earn it — health with retries after deploy.
- Failure undoes itself — unhealthy target rolls back automatically.
- Everything is written down — seed, promote, rollback in history per (app, ring).
Workstation product overview: /en/ring-promoter. Prior deep dives: modern CI/CD, QA gates, every release earns production.
4. Workstation angle
On Workstation instances, v1.0.2 makes multi-app release control rooms readable under load: Orbit for situational awareness, Lanes for “is prod behind?”, and the same YAML-onboarded apps, kubectl / GitHub Actions deployers, and production password gates operators already use.
5. Videos
- This release: Rings, Orbit and Lanes (v1.0.2)
- Quick intro: youtu.be/SjXwaTVuYhM · blog
- QA gates: youtu.be/Vs2Em0HPvoY · blog
6. Links
- Product site: https://www.ringpromoter.com/
- Release notes: v1.0.2 on GitHub
- Source: github.com/bwalia/ring-promoter
- Workstation page: /en/ring-promoter
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