Rollback Automation Skill

Automates rollback procedures for migration activities, managing state snapshots, generating rollback scripts, and automating verification.

Purpose

Enable safe rollback for:

• State snapshot management
• Rollback script generation
• Database rollback coordination
• Traffic switch rollback
• Verification automation

Capabilities

1. State Snapshot Management

• Create pre-migration snapshots
• Store state checkpoints
• Version snapshots
• Clean up old snapshots

2. Rollback Script Generation

• Generate database rollbacks
• Create code rollbacks
• Build config rollbacks
• Document procedures

3. Database Rollback Coordination

• Generate reverse migrations
• Handle data rollback
• Manage transactions
• Coordinate sequences

4. Traffic Switch Rollback

• Revert routing rules
• Switch DNS
• Update load balancers
• Handle sticky sessions

5. Verification Automation

• Test rollback success
• Verify functionality
• Check data integrity
• Validate performance

6. Rollback Testing

• Test rollback procedures
• Simulate failures
• Validate timing
• Document results

Tool Integrations

Tool	Purpose	Integration Method
Database migration tools	Schema rollback	CLI
Deployment tools	Code rollback	CLI
Feature flags	Feature rollback	API
Load balancers	Traffic rollback	API
IaC tools	Infrastructure rollback	CLI

Output Schema

{
  "rollbackId": "string",
  "timestamp": "ISO8601",
  "snapshot": {
    "id": "string",
    "created": "ISO8601",
    "components": []
  },
  "scripts": {
    "database": "string",
    "application": "string",
    "infrastructure": "string"
  },
  "execution": {
    "status": "ready|executed|verified",
    "duration": "string",
    "verification": {}
  }
}

Integration with Migration Processes

• All migration processes (universal rollback support)

Related Skills

• data-migration-validator: Post-rollback validation

Related Agents

• rollback-specialist: Rollback orchestration
• cutover-coordinator: Cutover management