Chapter 13: Blue Green Deployments
Releasing applications by shifting traffic between two identical environments is better known as using blue/green deployments. Knowing how to use blue/green deployments through the different AWS service offerings can help mitigate risk when releasing new versions of an application. Walking through the various techniques for the various services and understanding the usage of each is essential to passing the AWS DevOps Professional exam.
In this chapter, we're going to cover the following main topics:
- Understanding the concept of blue/green deployments
- AWS services that you can use for blue/green deployments
- Benefits of blue/green with AWS
- Updating Auto Scaling group launch configurations
- Using best practices in your data tier with blue/green deployments