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18 Cards in this Set
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What is blue green deployment? |
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How does it typically work with a DNS-Based approach? How is the DB affected? |
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Why are blue/green deployments more viable with cloud than on-premise? |
Because you don't need dedicated hardware/software to do this - you pay per use on the cloud and then it's torn down and used for someone else. |
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What are 2 example of canary testing? |
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How can blue green alleviate performance issues that are discovered? |
You can provision a brand new set of (upgraded) resources on the next build to fix the issue |
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How can we make builds more cost effective during the deployment window? |
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What are the AWS technologies that facilitate blue/green? How do they work? |
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How does ELB work with scale up? |
Check an ec2 instance for signs of life (e.g by pinging) and bring them into the green pool once they reach a success threshold. |
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How does ELB work with scale down? |
Check an instance for signs of life (e.g by pinging) and bring them out of the blue pool after a certain failure threshold. |
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How do Autoscale groups and ELB work together to phase in handling new traffic? |
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How does traffic reach the new version of the application gradually when we use an ELB/AutoScale approach? |
The load balancer will favour sending the traffic to nodes in the new pool since they have the fewest requests in service (by definition since they're brand new) |
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How do we phase out the old group? |
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How does an auto-scaling approach work with blue/green deployments for services built from a launch configuration? |
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With auto-scaling, what is an approach that allows you to quickly flip back to the blue config if something went wrong? |
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How does elastic beanstalk work? |
Upload a zip file of configuration and let ELB work out your actual required capacity. |
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How does OpsWorks support deployments? |
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What technique does Route53 give for a gradual cutover? |
Weighted routing |
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What's the best approach for managing database changes as part of a deployment? |
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