Accelerate DevOps with Blue-Green Deployments

The deployment of software has recently become a herculean task due to advancements in the digital world. Businesses are required to provide updates often while keeping the disruption of usage as low as possible. Today, Blue-Green Deployments provide modern and extremely efficient ways to make software releases, and Chaintech Network is ready to help your business implement this approach. 

What is Blue-Green Deployment? 

Blue-Green Deployment is a release automation strategy in the deployment of an application that helps to reduce the amount of downtime and also ensures that new errors are not introduced when a new release is being done on production. The concept of it is to have one completely mirrored environment for testing and a second one for production, both known as Blue and Green. The blue environment enables the websites to be running and serving their users, while the green is used for testing new releases of the website. Once the release in the green environment is verified, there is a fast and clear handover from blue to green without any problem for the users. If there are some problems, then traffic can shift back to Blue very fast, which means that there is basic coverage for deployment present back there as well.  

Proposed Benefits of Implementing the Blue/Green Technique 

• Reduced Downtime

  Blue-green deployments make it particularly easy to get rid of or cut down on the downtime that is usually associated with releases. A recent survey has found that 63 percent of companies experience unplanned outages at the time of software release, which results in revenue losses and unsatisfied customers. The deployment strategy of having your applications ready and live while changing environments is facilitated by Chaintech Network for your business.

• Instant Rollbacks for Safety

  In case of a deployment issue, what you want to do is as fast as possible to solve it. Other traditional rollback approaches can take a long time and cause service disruptions in the process. In the Blue-Green deployment model, switching back to the previous stable state, which is Blue, only takes a while. This enables companies to correct their mistakes without much loss, and therefore errors have no severe consequences. Specifically, Chaintech Network has guaranteed that rollback strategies are as quick and effective as your deployment.

• Higher Degree of Testing in Production Simulation Environment

  This is because the testing environment is rarely the same as the production environment, and the errors are hard to predict when new capabilities are launched. Thanks to Blue-Green deployments, Chaintech Network guarantees that your testing is done in the closest environment to production, and you are unlikely to face major issues after the release.  

How does Chaintech Network help implement Blue-Green Deploys? 

Chaintech Network recognized the fact that every business has its peculiarities as for deployment. That’s why our Blue-Green deployment solutions are so effective, enabling you to get what you want while minimizing the things you don’t. 

1. Personalized Automation Chains

   Chaintech Network's color coding system will create blue-green deployment pipelines depending on the needs of your organization. We then incorporate best practices that come in the form of tools such as the AWS Elastic Beanstalk, Kubernetes, or Docker to build structures that are flexible and adaptive to the cloud or on-premise structures.

2. Seamless traffic shifting

   In Blue-Green deployments, the user traffic switching between environments is very essential. As for traffic rerouting, we employ sophisticated routing approaches for rerouting purposes by using tools such as NGINX and HAProxy, as well as the cloud-native ones, and all of this without any negative impacts on users.

3. Continuous Monitoring and Feedback

   We know that deployment does not cease with traffic rerouting, as the first part of this paper has indicated. Chaintech Network is scalable and offers round-the-clock vigil to identify any problem in real-time, and with a green environment, your working spaces will function at optimum. Our feedback system also assists in gathering information useful in other future releases. 

The Future of Software Deployment: Blue-Green and Beyond 

The value of technology is plain to see, and as its uses grow, so must the strategies of their implementation. Blue-green deployments present a highly effective solution for minimizing the amount of users’ downtime, improving the quality of tests, and creating the backup mechanism for continuous delivery. Through synergy with Chaintech Network, your organization can unleash the full potential of this strategy in every release with efficiency and integrity.