blue-green deployment

Alibaba Cloud Infrastructure

Feb 14, 2025 · Cloud Native

Blue‑Green Deployment with Kruise Rollouts: Concepts, Implementation, and Comparison

This article explains the blue‑green deployment strategy, introduces Kruise Rollouts’ blue‑green capabilities, provides a step‑by‑step Kubernetes example with YAML manifests and kubectl commands, compares it to Argo Rollouts and Flux Flagger, discusses resource considerations and serverless advantages, and concludes with best‑practice recommendations.

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Blue‑Green Deployment with Kruise Rollouts: Concepts, Implementation, and Comparison

Continuous Delivery 2.0

Jul 19, 2024 · Operations

Strategic Enhancements for CI/CD Pipelines: Performance, Security, Blue‑Green Deployment, and Infrastructure as Code

This article outlines six practical strategies to upgrade CI/CD pipelines, including performance and device‑compatibility testing, visual regression and accessibility checks, automated security scans with Dependabot, blue‑green deployments, phased testing, infrastructure‑as‑code integration, and automated rollback checkpoints, helping teams deliver higher‑quality software faster.

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Strategic Enhancements for CI/CD Pipelines: Performance, Security, Blue‑Green Deployment, and Infrastructure as Code

37 Interactive Technology Team

Jun 17, 2024 · Databases

MySQL 5.7‑to‑8.0 Upgrade Plan, Compatibility Checks, and Blue‑Green Deployment on AWS RDS

Facing MySQL 5.7’s February 2024 end‑of‑life, the team devised a zero‑impact blue‑green migration on AWS RDS to MySQL 8.0.35, using util.checkForServerUpgrade() compatibility checks, pt‑upgrade SQL validation, and a rapid 2‑minute switchover that completed within the planned low‑traffic window.

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MySQL 5.7‑to‑8.0 Upgrade Plan, Compatibility Checks, and Blue‑Green Deployment on AWS RDS

DevOps Cloud Academy

Feb 22, 2024 · Cloud Native

Blue‑Green Deployment with Host and Path‑Based Routing in Kubernetes

This guide explains how to implement a blue‑green deployment on Kubernetes with host‑ and path‑based routing, covering prerequisites, namespace creation, deployment manifests, service and ingress configuration, traffic switching, updates, verification, and rollback procedures.

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Blue‑Green Deployment with Host and Path‑Based Routing in Kubernetes

ZhongAn Tech Team

Nov 4, 2023 · Backend Development

How ZhongAn Bank’s Engineer Culture Drives Digital Banking Success in Hong Kong

The article examines ZhongAn Bank’s rapid growth in Hong Kong by highlighting its engineer‑first culture, self‑developed core services, agile and blue‑green deployment practices, AI‑driven document recognition, and commitment to inclusive fintech, illustrating how technology fuels its competitive advantage.

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How ZhongAn Bank’s Engineer Culture Drives Digital Banking Success in Hong Kong

DeWu Technology

Mar 15, 2023 · Operations

Blue-Green Deployment: Process, Traffic Scheduling, and Component Support

The article explains blue‑green deployment as a release strategy that improves large‑scale microservice rollouts by extracting traffic from a blue cluster, incrementally shifting it to a green environment, using global and local traffic scheduling, central metadata, compatible components, and careful considerations such as idempotent consumption and version compatibility.

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Blue-Green Deployment: Process, Traffic Scheduling, and Component Support

Efficient Ops

Aug 18, 2022 · Operations

Inside ICBC’s Gray Release System: Reducing Risk with Canary, Rolling & Blue‑Green Deployments

This article explains how Industrial and Commercial Bank of China (ICBC) adopts gray‑release strategies—including canary, rolling, and blue‑green deployments—combined with standardized specifications, management processes, and automation tools to control version risk, ensure financial stability, and accelerate digital innovation.

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Inside ICBC’s Gray Release System: Reducing Risk with Canary, Rolling & Blue‑Green Deployments

DeWu Technology

Aug 5, 2022 · Cloud Native

Traffic Coloring in Microservice Architecture: Concepts, Applications, and Implementation

Traffic coloring tags each request in a microservice call chain, propagating a version label through HTTP headers or RPC contexts so that routers and load balancers can perform gray releases, blue‑green deployments, lane isolation, graceful shutdowns, and test traffic separation, provided all services support the metadata propagation via frameworks such as Spring Cloud Ribbon or Dubbo.

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Traffic Coloring in Microservice Architecture: Concepts, Applications, and Implementation

DevOps

Jun 20, 2022 · Operations

Deployment and Release Practices: Continuous Deployment, Blue‑Green, Canary, and More

This article explains the differences between deployment and release, defines continuous deployment, and details various deployment and release strategies such as blue‑green, rolling, dark launch, canary, gray release, and A/B testing, including technical implementations like feature toggles, feature branches, and abstract branches, with real‑world examples from Facebook.

Continuous DeploymentDevOpsFeature Toggles

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Deployment and Release Practices: Continuous Deployment, Blue‑Green, Canary, and More

Efficient Ops

May 6, 2020 · Cloud Native

How Solar Enables Seamless Blue‑Green Deployments in Cloud‑Native Microservices

This article explains how the Solar microservice framework, built on Spring Cloud, provides a fully automated, safe, and loss‑less blue‑green release system with intelligent monitoring, weight‑based traffic shifting, and namespace isolation, empowering large‑scale online education platforms to achieve rapid, reliable deployments without manual intervention.

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How Solar Enables Seamless Blue‑Green Deployments in Cloud‑Native Microservices

DevOps

Feb 13, 2019 · Operations

Dolphins' Never‑Sleep Secret and Continuous Deployment Strategies (Blue‑Green & Rolling Updates)

This article explores how dolphins can stay continuously awake by alternating brain hemisphere activity, explains the biological basis of their half‑sleep behavior, and draws analogies to modern software deployment techniques such as blue‑green and rolling updates, illustrating continuous service availability and the concept of perpetual renewal.

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Dolphins' Never‑Sleep Secret and Continuous Deployment Strategies (Blue‑Green & Rolling Updates)

DevOps

Jul 2, 2018 · Operations

Concourse CI Tutorial: End-to-End Blue‑Green Deployment with Docker and Cloud Foundry

This guide explains how to set up Concourse CI pipelines for automated blue‑green deployments, covering Docker Toolbox installation, pipeline configuration, unit and load testing, Cloud Foundry deployment, and cleanup steps, enabling zero‑downtime releases for Node.js applications.

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Concourse CI Tutorial: End-to-End Blue‑Green Deployment with Docker and Cloud Foundry

360 Zhihui Cloud Developer

Jan 9, 2018 · Operations

Which Continuous Delivery Strategy Fits Your Team? A Deep Dive into 4 Deployment Methods

This article compares four common continuous delivery deployment approaches—minimum‑service deployment, rolling updates, blue/green deployment, and A/B testing—detailing their workflows, advantages, and drawbacks to help teams choose the most suitable method for their applications.

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Which Continuous Delivery Strategy Fits Your Team? A Deep Dive into 4 Deployment Methods

Architect

Sep 19, 2015 · Cloud Native

Docker: Accelerating Software Testing and Simplifying Production Deployments

The article explains how Docker’s lightweight container technology speeds up test environment setup, reduces resource consumption, supports blue/green deployments, and simplifies production orchestration, making it an essential tool for modern development teams seeking efficient, reliable software delivery.

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Docker: Accelerating Software Testing and Simplifying Production Deployments