deployment-patterns

Blue-green deployment shifts all traffic between two identical environments, while canary deployment gradually routes a small traffic percentage to the new version. This skill provides structured templates and best-practice guidance for executing both strategies reliably.

Configuring Kubernetes health probes for a rolling deployment requires setting readiness and liveness checks to route traffic only to healthy pods. This skill provides health check templates and production-readiness checklists to validate probe configurations.

The best way to set up a CI/CD pipeline with Docker and GitHub Actions involves using multi-stage builds and structured pipeline exemplars. This skill provides Dockerization recommendations and CI/CD templates to standardize your automated release process.

Yes, this deployment guidance works with Docker multi-stage builds. It includes specific recommendations for Dockerization and environment configuration to ensure containers are optimized and production-ready before executing rolling or canary releases.

To rollback a failed canary release in Kubernetes, you shift traffic back to the stable version using rollback checklists and health probes. This skill provides structured rollback strategies and production-readiness verification to handle failed deployments safely.