Release Strategies

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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.