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title: "Hand Off to Platform Teams"
url: "https://docs.caracal.run/v1.0/operations/platform-team-handoff/"
markdown_url: "https://docs.caracal.run/markdown/v1.0/operations/platform-team-handoff.md"
description: "Accept ownership only after operators can deploy, verify, recover, and escalate the OSS runtime."
page_type: "workflow"
concepts: []
requires: []
---

# Hand Off to Platform Teams

Canonical URL: https://docs.caracal.run/v1.0/operations/platform-team-handoff/
Markdown URL: https://docs.caracal.run/markdown/v1.0/operations/platform-team-handoff.md
Description: Accept ownership only after operators can deploy, verify, recover, and escalate the OSS runtime.
Page type: workflow
Concepts: none
Requires: none

---

This transfers operational responsibility; it does not create support or availability guarantees.

## Prerequisites

Name service, storage, security, release, and on-call owners. Provide deployed values, secret inventory, monitoring, backups, and private incident access.

## Acceptance Procedure

1. Reproduce release verification and rendering.
2. Start or upgrade staging.
3. Verify migrations, health/readiness, metrics, authorization, revocation, and audit.
4. Trigger alerts and confirm routing.
5. Produce data and separate secret backups; restore both in isolation.
6. Rehearse dependency failure and security intake.
7. Record known limits and absent enterprise assurances.

## Acceptance Evidence

Retain version/digests, values, migration/readiness output, canary IDs, alert tests, restore results, owners, escalation, and risks.

## Recovery

Reject handoff when an owner, secret, backup, alert, or recovery test is missing. Continue staging ownership until closed.

## Next Step

Use [Respond to Incidents](/v1.0/operations/incident-response/) as the on-call entry point.