Deployment Patterns

Deployment patterns deal with the strategies used to release and update software. They focus on the technical aspects of getting software from development into production, ensuring reliability and minimizing downtime.

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Shadow Deployment

behavioral deployment reliability

Shadow Deployment is a technique to test changes in a live production environment without impacting real users. It involves duplicating real production traffic to a new, “shadow” version of the application. This allows for observing the new system’s behavior under realistic load, identifying potential …

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Canary Release

behavioral deployment reliability

The Canary Release pattern is a deployment strategy where a new version of software is rolled out to a small subset of users or servers before being made available to the entire infrastructure. This allows for real-world testing of the new version with minimal impact, enabling teams to detect and address any unforeseen …

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Rolling Deployment

behavioral deployment

Rolling deployment is a software deployment strategy where new versions of an application are released to a subset of users or servers at a time, rather than all at once. This approach minimizes downtime and reduces the risk of widespread issues by allowing for gradual rollout and monitoring. If problems are detected, …

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Blue-Green Deployment

deployment operational

Blue-Green Deployment is a release strategy that reduces downtime and risk by running two identical environments, ‘blue’ and ‘green’. The ‘blue’ environment serves all production traffic, while the ‘green’ environment is kept as a staging area for new releases. Once the …

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Shadow Deployment

Canary Release

Rolling Deployment

Blue-Green Deployment