1. A computerized method for deploying a release to a production environment of a cloud computing environment comprising: providing a release specification regarding the release to operating personnel who has access to restricted data in the cloud computing environment, the release and the release specification having been authored by DevOps personnel who does not have access to restricted data in the cloud computing environment, wherein the release is at least one of a software update, software patch, a firmware update, or a firmware patch and the release specification describes at least how the release cannot make changes that would allow the DevOps personnel to access the restricted data; 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.