Tagging Releases And Rollbacks

Learn Tagging Releases And Rollbacks for free with explanations, exercises, and a quick test (for Analytics Engineer).

Published: December 23, 2025 | Updated: December 23, 2025

Why this matters

Reproducible deployments: deploy a specific tag instead of a moving branch.
Auditability: know exactly what code powered last week’s metrics.
Fast rollback: redeploy a stable tag or revert a release commit without chaos.

Concept explained simply

Next steps

Automate tagging in CI when main is green.
Standardize release notes using a template.
Practice a quarterly rollback drill.

Quick Test

Take the quick test below. Anyone can attempt it. Log in to save your results.

Practice Exercises

2 exercises to complete

Instructions

You are ready to ship a stable release from main. Create an annotated tag v1.4.0 with a clear, one-line message and push it to origin. Verify the tag points to the latest commit on main.

Checkout main and pull.
Create annotated tag with message.
Show the tag details.
Push the tag to origin and confirm.

Expected Output

A remote tag v1.4.0 exists on origin; git show v1.4.0 displays the correct commit, tagger, date, and message.