deployment-strategy

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Deployment Strategy

Overview

Covers deployment strategy selection, rollback safety, and progressive delivery patterns. Focuses on zero-downtime release techniques, blast radius management, and environment promotion workflows from development through production.

When to use: Choosing between blue-green, canary, or rolling deployments, implementing rollback procedures, configuring health checks and readiness gates, planning environment promotion workflows, integrating feature flags for progressive delivery.

When NOT to use: CI/CD pipeline mechanics and GitHub Actions workflows (use ci-cd-architecture skill), infrastructure provisioning and cloud platform selection (use ci-cd-architecture skill), application architecture decisions (use framework-specific skills).

Quick Reference

Need Strategy
Instant rollback Blue-green (swap traffic back to previous environment)
Gradual risk validation Canary (route 1-5% traffic, monitor, then expand)
Default Kubernetes updates Rolling (replace pods incrementally with maxSurge/maxUnavail)
Full environment replace Recreate (stop all old, start all new; accepts brief downtime)
Feature-level control Feature flags (decouple deploy from release)
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Installs
32
GitHub Stars
11
First Seen
Feb 24, 2026