After contacting Magento Support you were advised to permanently enable the Redis disable_locking option.
How do you implement this on a Production environment?

You are testing an integration to an external service that requires you to configure an access key in an environment variable. You created a new environment to validate the functionality The variable must only impact this environment How do you configure the variable?

You want to improve the ability to monitor Production deployments by setting up an email notification system How do you achieve this?

You add a new Composer dependency utilizing composer require. After testing composer install locally, you add the Composer local and Json files and perform a deployment. The build phase fails as Composer is unable to resolve the dependencies.
Why do this happen/

You need to get code with a backend order placement security related fix into production as quickly as possible.
The project currently deploys static content during the build phase with both stags/global/SKIP_SCD and stage/deploy/STATIC_STATIC_CONTENT_SYMLINK set to false.
What setting in.magento,env,yaml minimizes the overall deployment time?