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Rolling Deployment vs Canary 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 meets developers should use canary deployment when releasing updates to production environments, especially for critical applications where downtime or bugs could have significant business impact. Here's our take.

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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

Rolling Deployment

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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

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

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

The Verdict

Use Rolling Deployment if: You want it is particularly useful in cloud-based or containerized setups (e and can live with specific tradeoffs depend on your use case.

Use Canary Deployment if: You prioritize 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 over what Rolling Deployment offers.

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The Bottom Line
Rolling Deployment wins

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

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