diff --git a/chart/cohort/Chart.yaml b/chart/cohort/Chart.yaml
index 59150255..8999f410 100644
--- a/chart/cohort/Chart.yaml
+++ b/chart/cohort/Chart.yaml
@@ -7,4 +7,4 @@ apiVersion: v1
 appVersion: "1.0"
 description: Quality Measure and Cohort Service
 name: cohort
-version: 0.1.0
+version: 1.0.0
diff --git a/pipeline.config b/pipeline.config
index 60cab346..e618b5c1 100644
--- a/pipeline.config
+++ b/pipeline.config
@@ -3,6 +3,8 @@
 #
 # SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0
 #
+# If you are deploying from the wh-cohorting-deploy umbrella repo,
+# you will need to update this value with the Insights id from your cluster
 INSIGHTS:
   ID: "9b253889-dee0-47f4-9ea0-402306239aaa"
 CI:
@@ -36,12 +38,15 @@ CD:
 # For a successful build to be promoted to Staging or Production, it is necessary to have an associated approved Service Now ticket.
 # The SERVICENOW_SERVICENAME value should match the "Configuration item" as defined in the servicenow change request.
 # See https://github.ibm.com/whc-toolchain/whc-commons/blob/2c9cfd2a3683dc5ba993d338f9fb0172165fb516/docs/launch/approval-gate.md
-  SERVICENOW_SERVICENAME: "wh-csp-core"
+  SERVICENOW_SERVICENAME: "offering-needs-to-change"
   TILLERSERVICEACCOUNTDISABLE: "true"
   HELM_TIMEOUT: "1800"
   USESOURCE: "true"
   USEHELMV3: "true"
   # See note about FHIR_CLUSTER_NAMESPACE above
+  # These keys are used by our full FVT tests which require a fhir server with specific test data loaded
+  # If you are deploying from the wh-cohorting-deploy umbrella repo, the full fvt tests have been removed
+  # and the vault keys are not required when deploying from that repo
   VAULT_KEYS_TO_INJECT: "FHIR_USER_PASSWORD,FHIR_TRUSTSTORE_PASSWD,FHIR_CLUSTER_NAMESPACE"
   # added to allow mixed case branch names (toolchains fail on mixed case branch names without this set,
   # could remove when we switch to using main branch
diff --git a/prePromotion.sh b/prePromotion.sh
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..1e004d1b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/prePromotion.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,42 @@
+#Print commands and their arguments as they are executed.
+set -x
+
+function readd_tests(){
+  echo "./tests/run-tests.sh fvttest.xml" >>run-fvttests.sh
+  echo "./tests/run-tests.sh ivttest.xml" >>run-ivttests.sh
+  echo "./tests/run-tests.sh regtest.xml" >>run-regrtests.sh
+}
+
+if [ "$UMBRELLA_REPO_PATH" == "https://github.ibm.com/watson-health-cohorting/wh-cohorting-umbrella" ]; then
+  if [ -f ./application.version ]; then
+    APPLICATION_VERSION="$(cat application.version)"
+  else
+    echo "There is not an application.version file"
+    exit 1
+  fi
+
+  echo "Validating versions are updated in the appropriate files"
+  APP_NAME='cohort-services'
+  COMPONENTNAME='cohort'
+  PATH_TO_COMPONENT="${APP_NAME}/${COMPONENTNAME}"
+  CHART_VERSION=$(cat "$PATH_TO_COMPONENT/chart/cohort/Chart.yaml" | grep 'version:' | sed -E 's/^version: (.+)$/\1/g')
+  if [ "$APPLICATION_VERSION" != "$CHART_VERSION" ]; then
+    echo "The chart version '$CHART_VERSION' does not match the application version '$APPLICATION_VERSION' you are releasing. Please make sure you have updated the helm chart version and the application.version file to match."
+    exit 1
+  fi
+
+  echo "Removing all unnecessary files except for smoke tests"
+  rm -f README.md
+#  rm -f mkdocs.yml
+  echo "Make README for wh-cohorting-deploy"
+  echo "# wh-cohorting-deploy
+  This repo is to assist teams in deployment to both CDT and CSP. For more information on deployments, see [(https://github.com/Alvearie/quality-measure-and-cohort-service#readme) Github readme." >>README.md
+  cd ./$PATH_TO_COMPONENT/tests/
+  find . -not -name '*smoketest*' -not -name '*run-tests*' -not -name '*authenticate*' -not -path "./tests" -not -path "." >>remove_tests.txt
+  cat remove_tests.txt
+  xargs rm -rf <remove_tests.txt
+  readd_tests
+  chmod +x run-tests.sh
+else
+  echo "This is not an Cohorting release for development. Moving on..."
+fi
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diff --git a/tests/run-tests.sh b/tests/run-tests.sh
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..0474ce72
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/run-tests.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,13 @@
+# file used to create dummy tests for wh-cohorting-deploy umbrella repo so we don't run fvt tests during customer/staging/production deployments
+# referenced from pre/postPromotion.sh scripts
+output="<testcase classname=\"bash\" name=\"test1\" time=\"0\"/>"
+date=`date`
+header="<testsuite name=\"FVT tests\" tests=\"1\" failures=\"0\" errors=\"0\" skipped=\"0\" timestamp=\"${date}\" time=\"0\">"
+footer="</testsuite>"
+
+filename=$1
+cat << EOF > $filename
+$header
+$output
+$footer
+EOF
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