deployment-patterns

Blue-green deployment eliminates downtime by running two identical environments and shifting traffic instantly. This Skill automates configuring blue-green rollout strategies alongside canary and rolling updates for seamless production releases.

Multi-stage Dockerfiles isolate build dependencies from final runtime images to reduce size and attack surface. This Skill automates Dockerization and CI/CD pipeline generation using GitHub Actions for web applications.

Canary deployments route a small percentage of traffic to the new version to test errors, while rolling deployments gradually replace instances. This Skill automates applying both Kubernetes rollout strategies safely.

Health checks and readiness probes verify application stability before routing traffic to new pods. This Skill automates Kubernetes probe configuration and production readiness checklists to ensure reliable release coordination.

Automated rollback procedures revert applications to the previous stable state when health checks fail. This Skill plans rollback workflows and release coordination to quickly recover from failed production deployments.

This Skill primarily automates CI/CD pipeline generation and deployment workflows using GitHub Actions. Its rollout strategies, Docker multi-stage builds, and health check configurations apply broadly to web application environments.