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Blue-green deployment vs rolling deployment

Rolling replaces instances gradually, while blue-green keeps old and new environments side by side and switches traffic in one move.

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Blue-green deployment vs rolling deployment

Rolling replaces instances gradually, while blue-green keeps old and new environments side by side and switches traffic in one move.

  • Rolling is resource-efficient
  • Blue-green is cleaner for fast rollback
  • Trade cost for safety

Blue-green deployment vs rolling deployment