Industrial Internet Application Development

Blue-Green deployment

The idea behind Blue-Green deployment is to have two identical environments that we can easily switch between. In this way we can use the CI/CD to deploy, test, and successfully open up the new environment for production use and subsequently make the current production environment a standby, or it can be used for the next deployment. Even with full CI/CD automation, challenges still exist with cut-over itself; taking software from the final stage of testing to live production has to be done in the minimum time frame without any service downtime or with very minimal downtime. Blue-Green deployment enables a smooth cut-off by having two identical production environments. At any given time frame, one of the environments, ...