Canary Deployment vs Rolling Deployment
Developers should use canary deployment when releasing updates to production environments, especially for critical applications where downtime or bugs could have significant business impact meets developers should use rolling deployment in production environments where high availability is critical, such as for web applications, apis, or microservices that cannot afford extended outages. Here's our take.
Canary Deployment
Developers should use canary deployment when releasing updates to production environments, especially for critical applications where downtime or bugs could have significant business impact
Canary Deployment
Nice PickDevelopers should use canary deployment when releasing updates to production environments, especially for critical applications where downtime or bugs could have significant business impact
Pros
- +It is particularly valuable for continuous delivery pipelines, A/B testing new features, and ensuring stability in microservices architectures, as it reduces the blast radius of failures and allows for quick rollbacks if issues arise
- +Related to: continuous-deployment, blue-green-deployment
Cons
- -Specific tradeoffs depend on your use case
Rolling Deployment
Developers should use rolling deployment in production environments where high availability is critical, such as for web applications, APIs, or microservices that cannot afford extended outages
Pros
- +It is particularly useful in cloud-based or containerized setups (e
- +Related to: continuous-deployment, blue-green-deployment
Cons
- -Specific tradeoffs depend on your use case
The Verdict
Use Canary Deployment if: You want it is particularly valuable for continuous delivery pipelines, a/b testing new features, and ensuring stability in microservices architectures, as it reduces the blast radius of failures and allows for quick rollbacks if issues arise and can live with specific tradeoffs depend on your use case.
Use Rolling Deployment if: You prioritize it is particularly useful in cloud-based or containerized setups (e over what Canary Deployment offers.
Developers should use canary deployment when releasing updates to production environments, especially for critical applications where downtime or bugs could have significant business impact
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