Comparisons

Blue-Green vs Canary vs Rolling Deployments

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Venn diagram comparing Blue-Green, Canary, and Rolling deployment strategies across cost, traffic routing, and rollback capabilities.
Venn diagram comparing Blue-Green, Canary, and Rolling deployment strategies across cost, traffic routing, and rollback capabilities.
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What it shows

  • Blue-Green requires 2x compute capacity but allows instant one-step rollback.
  • Canary releases route 1-5% of real traffic to isolate failure blast radiuses.
  • Rolling deployments update nodes in-place, keeping cloud spend minimal.

The takeaway

Pick Blue-Green for rapid rollbacks, Canary for safety checks, and Rolling for budget.

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