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Blue-Green Deployment Strategy

Posted on 21 Aug, 2021
Useful in case you need to continuously roll out updates with almost no downtime
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    Basically stands for copying your production container (🟦) to a new one (🟩)
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    Applying your changes to the new green container
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    Push this container to prod alongside the blue one
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    Perform any automated tests / QA
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    Gradually redirect your users to the new deployment (load balancing)
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    Once the transition completes, the blue container can become a backup in case you need to rollback or it can be dumped