How Can We Be Successful

• Fast Mean Time To Recovery
• Deploy More Often
• Decreased Lead Time
• Change Fail Percentage

Defining Success

How We Deploy Code

• Decouple Deployments From Releases
• Deploy More Often
• Be Confident When We Release
• Recover Quickly

Goal

• Deployment & Release Platform
• Zero Downtime Releases
• Deploy new code to a dark production environment
• Flexible Release Strategies

The Plan

Blue Green 

• Run two versions of the Application
• Public traffic goes to "Live" version
• Deploy new code to "Dark" version
• Test it!
• When Confident, release by swapping

Load Balancer

Live Version
(stable)

Dark Version
(old version)

Load Balancer

Live Version
(stable)

Dark Version
(new code*)

new stuff!

Load Balancer

Dark Version
(stable)

Live Version
(new version)

demo!