Blue-green deployments
Blue-green is a development and deployment concept requiring two copies of the product, one called blue and other green, with one copy being the current release of the product. The other copy is in active development to become the next release as soon as it is deemed fit for production. Another benefit of using this development/deployment model is the ability to roll back to the previous release should the need arise. Blue-green deployments are vital to the concept of CI because, without the future release being developed in conjunction with the current release, hotfixes and fire/damage control become the norm, with innovation and overall focus suffering as a result.
Blue-green deployments specifically allow zero-downtime ...
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