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# Blue/Geen Deployments

* Strategy to deploy a new version of an application. 
* They work by starting an entirely new instance of the application and then routing traffic over to it

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* After testing and making sure that everything runs fine, we redirect the users to the new version (Green) and shutdown the old (Blue)

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#### Benefits:

* Easy to understand
* Powerful
* Extendable to workflows

#### Cons:

* Difficutl to make hotfixes
* Resource allocation is not convenient
* Clusters can affect each other