deployment-patterns

Rolling deployments incrementally replace application instances to ensure safe, repeatable releases without downtime. This skill provides structured guidance and patterns to plan rolling updates and integrate them effectively into your CI/CD pipelines.

Automated rollback procedures revert applications to a stable state if health checks fail. This skill helps you integrate Dockerization, Kubernetes readiness probes, and automated rollback processes directly into your CI/CD workflows.

Kubernetes health checks and readiness probes validate application stability before routing traffic. This skill guides you through configuring these probes and applying production readiness checklists for robust, auditable releases.

Docker and Kubernetes are central to the deployment patterns provided. The skill documents environment configuration, Dockerization, and Kubernetes readiness checks to ensure your web applications are fully prepared for production deployment.

Rolling deployments may be unsuitable when application changes require synchronized schema updates or break backwards compatibility. This skill outlines clear trade-offs and decision criteria to help determine when to use canary or blue-green strategies instead.