Which component is included within the definition of a connection behavior?

The correct answer focuses on back-promotion behaviors, which play a crucial role in how connections manage data and metadata across different environments in the Copado platform. Back-promotion behaviors are essential for establishing how changes or updates made in a higher environment can be reflected back into a lower environment. This is particularly important in a CI/CD (Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment) workflow, where maintaining consistency and accuracy of data across environments is key to successful deployments.

In contrast, the other options serve different roles within the Copado ecosystem. Promotion procedures pertain to the defined steps for promoting changes from one environment to another. Deployment rules are the criteria or conditions under which deployments occur and are often set to ensure the correct versions and changes are applied appropriately. Pipelines refer to the structured processes that guide the flow of code changes through various stages of development, testing, and deployment.

All these components are vital for a streamlined deployment process, but back-promotion behaviors specifically address the specific aspect of how connections handle changes from higher environments back into lower environments, making it the focus of the question.