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Preparing your team for continuous deployment

CircleCI

A key goal for any DevOps team is to shorten the software development cycle and provide continuous delivery of high-quality software. Instead of continuing to the next logical goal, continuous deployment, most companies stop here. Continuous delivery versus continuous deployment. Agile teams.

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Blue-Green Deployments: A Definition and Introductory Guide

LaunchDarkly

This deployment process involves creating two identical instances of a production app behind a load balancer. At any given time, one app is responding to user traffic, while the other app receives constant updates from your team’s continuous integration (CI) server. The blue environment is live. Keep improving.