deployment checklists

A practical, Bash-first AI DevOps playbook offering five copy-pasteable checklists to combat drift and regressions: reproducible environments (Makefile, venv, pinned deps, container digests), artifact governance (Git LFS, checksums), CI/CD quality gates, inference observability (JSON logs, Prometheus), and secrets hygiene—distro-agnostic Podman/Docker commands for reliable, repeatable deployments.