Understanding deployment patterns

There are a lot of different ways you can release your code into your environments. They range from deploying all your assets at once to the more risk-averse canary release with traffic shifting. There are a lot of considerations when choosing your deployment strategy.

In this section, we will go over some of the more common options and how they can be implemented in your Serverless Framework workflow.

Deploying all at once

The first and most basic method is to deploy everything at once. This includes the infrastructure (such as Lambda, API Gateway, and DynamoDB), the function code, and any configuration that's required. This is the pattern we have been using throughout all the examples...