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DevOpsAugust 2025
Deployment strategies: canary, blue/green, and feature rollout
Choose a deployment strategy that matches your risk tolerance and operational maturity - all strategies trade complexity for safety.
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Blue/green provides instant rollback but requires duplicate capacity. Canary rollouts are gradual and reduce risk with smaller blast radii.
Feature rollout via flags decouples deployment from release and offers fine-grained control.
Automation and observability
Automate verification gates and use metrics-based criteria to promote stages.
Build automatic rollback triggers tied to reliability signals to reduce mean time to recovery.