1. A computerized method for deploying a release to a production environment of a cloud computing environment comprising: providing a notification regarding the release to operating personnel who has access to restricted data in the cloud computing environment, the release having been authored by DevOps personnel who does not have access to restricted data in the cloud computing environment; providing, to the operating personnel, access to release specifications describing the release; receiving approval for the release from the operating personnel; receiving the release at the cloud computing environment and storing the release in storage at the cloud computing environment; and in response to the approval, automatically deploying the release to the production environment in response to the approval from the operating personnel.