A business uses AEM as a Cloud Service. The production pipeline in Cloud Manager Keeps reporting a maintainability issue during the hot-fix deployment. It will take more than 1 business day for the…

Question

Options

• AUncheck Go Live Approval setting in Production Deployment Options and re-run the build
• BSet Important failure Behavior setting to "Continue immediately' and re-run the build
• CUpload the hot-fix package and install manually via the Package Manager

• A
  72% (43)
• B
  18% (11)
• C
  10% (6)

Explanation

Unchecking "Go Live Approval" in the Production Deployment Options bypasses the manual approval gate that is blocking the pipeline from completing - this is the fastest way to get a hotfix deployed immediately without touching code quality settings or using unsupported workarounds.

Option B is wrong because "Important Failure Behavior → Continue Immediately" addresses how the pipeline handles quality gate failures (like code coverage or security issues), not maintainability issues tied to an approval gate - it changes what happens on metric failures, not on approval holds.

Option C is wrong because AEM as a Cloud Service explicitly does not support manual package installation via Package Manager for production - the immutable repository model means code must go through Cloud Manager pipelines; manual installs are a legacy AEM on-premise practice.

Memory tip: Think of "Go Live Approval" as a stop sign someone placed at the end of the pipeline. If a human approval step is the bottleneck, you remove the stop sign (uncheck it) - you don't change the speed limit (failure behavior) or sneak around the road entirely (Package Manager).

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