Blue-Green Deployment

TECHNICAL DEFINITION

Blue-Green Deployment is a deployment strategy that maintains two identical production environments (blue for current, green for new), allowing for seamless traffic switching to the new version after validation, and easy rollback by switching back.

BACKGROUND

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SYNONYMS & ALIASES

• Red-Black deployment
• A/B deployment
• hot-cold deployment

USAGE NOTE

Blue-green deployment offers zero-downtime releases and quick rollback capabilities.

DEVELOPERS

Organizations developing technology related to Blue-Green Deployment.

• AWS (Amazon Web Services)

  Through Amazon SageMaker, AWS provides MLOps capabilities for deploying and managing machine learning models, enabling strategies such as blue-green deployments for AI model endpoints with traffic routing and rollback capabilities.

• Google Cloud Platform (GCP)

  Google Cloud's Vertex AI offers a unified MLOps platform for deploying, managing, and monitoring ML models. It supports various deployment strategies, including controlled rollouts and traffic splitting, which can facilitate blue-green deployments for AI applications.

• Microsoft Azure

  Azure Machine Learning provides comprehensive MLOps functionalities, including model deployment, endpoint management, and CI/CD integrations that support implementing safe deployment strategies like blue-green for AI models and associated prompt engineering updates.

• Databricks

  With its Lakehouse Platform and MLflow, Databricks offers robust MLOps capabilities for managing the ML lifecycle, including model serving and deployment with versioning and staging, essential for executing blue-green deployment strategies for AI workloads.

• Seldon

  Seldon specializes in MLOps and provides Seldon Core, an open-source platform for deploying machine learning models on Kubernetes. It explicitly supports advanced deployment strategies like blue-green, canary, and A/B testing for AI models.

• Verta.ai

  Verta offers an MLOps platform that helps enterprises manage, deploy, and monitor machine learning models. Its capabilities include model versioning, controlled rollouts, and deployment orchestration that enable blue-green and other progressive delivery strategies for AI applications.

• DataRobot

  DataRobot provides an end-to-end AI platform that includes robust MLOps capabilities for model deployment, monitoring, and governance. It supports implementing controlled release strategies, including those akin to blue-green deployments, for AI models and their updates.

• Domino Data Lab

  Domino Data Lab offers an enterprise MLOps platform that empowers data science teams to develop, deploy, and manage models at scale. It includes features for model deployment, versioning, and lifecycle management that facilitate safe rollout patterns like blue-green.