2 posts tagged with "ring deployment"

In software development, engineers and operations teams have a variety of deployment techniques, each with pros and cons. With so many options available, choosing the right release strategy can be challenging, especially when addressing specific problems.

In this blog, we will focus on two deployment strategies, blue/green and ring deployments, which aim to deploy software with minimal risk and disruptions, each using a different approach. These strategies can be applied to a variety of scenarios.

Coming up, we will explore how they work, their ideal use cases, their advantages and disadvantages, and, most importantly, how using a feature flag service like ConfigCat can enhance the flexibility and suitability of both blue/green and ring deployments to meet your specific needs.

Building a modern application often involves building it as a microservice, which provides developers with more flexibility and agility in terms of deployment options. However, deployment can either be a joy or a nightmare, depending on the strategy used, whether it's deploying microservices, testing new features, updating a business logic, or releasing a new version entirely? With every code change pushed, comes the risk of potential failures, which could be as a result of bad code quality or unexpected bugs, and this can potentially disrupt the user's experience.

Hence, picking an efficient deployment strategy is key to mitigating these deployment risks and not having to constantly disrupt your user’s experience by going into downtimes or completely having to go offline whenever there is something to be deployed.