Blue-Green Deployment
Explore the blue-green deployment strategy to deploy new application versions with minimal disruption. Understand how to maintain parallel environments, switch traffic safely, and implement this method using AWS services such as Route 53, Elastic Load Balancer, and Elastic Beanstalk. Learn the benefits including no downtime and easy rollback, as well as challenges like cost and database syncing, to apply this approach effectively in mission-critical scenarios.
A blue-green deployment strategy is considered an expensive deployment option because it requires maintaining two identical production environments, blue and green. The blue environment caters to the live production traffic. In contrast, the green environment is an identical copy of the ...