Blue-Green Deployments - What Are They and Why Are They Important?
Introduction With all the higher-level patterns I wanted to go back to basics a little bit and look at Blue-Green deployments. Though it can be deemed a design pattern (we’d certainly have to keep it in mind when we design our application), it’s probably more of a deployment strategy.
What is a Blue-Green Deployment? A blue-green deployment is a software deployment strategy that involves creating two identical production environments, one for the current production release (blue) and one for the new release (green).
