Deployment

Blue-Green Deployment

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A deployment strategy maintaining two identical environments, switching traffic for zero-downtime updates.

Blue-green has two production environments. Green is the new version. Switching traffic from blue to green. Blue-green enables instant rollback. Blue-green is zero-downtime. Blue-green requires double resources. Blue-green is safe but expensive. Blue-green is best practice for critical systems.

Last verified: 2026-04-08

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