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Blue Green Deploy Skill by @BagelHole

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$git clone https://github.com/BagelHole/DevOps-Security-Agent-Skills

The skill is the devops/release/blue-green-deploy folder inside that repository. Copy it into the folder your agent loads skills from; check your agent's documentation for where that is.

about Blue Green Deploy Skill by @BagelHole

Configure zero-downtime deployment strategies including blue-green, canary, and rolling deployments.

our take

Zero-downtime deployment strategies: blue-green, canary and rolling deployments, with traffic shifting, health checks and rollback procedures.

when to use it

You want releases without downtime
You are choosing between blue-green and canary
You need a tested rollback procedure

before you install

Database changes complicate blue-green, so plan schema migrations carefully
Running two environments temporarily raises infrastructure cost

what's inside

The original SKILL.md is organised into these sections:

When to Use This Skill
Prerequisites
Deployment Strategy Overview
Blue-Green Deployment
Concept
Kubernetes Implementation
Switch Script
AWS ECS Blue-Green
Canary Deployment
Kubernetes with Istio
Argo Rollouts
Rolling Deployment

source and license

Written and maintained by @BagelHole. It is published under the MIT license, which allows reuse with attribution. SkillDirectory does not claim authorship: this page adds our own review and links back to the original, and the skill's text belongs to its author.

View the full SKILL.md on GitHub ↗

Read the opening of the original SKILL.md

# Blue-Green & Deployment Strategies

Implement zero-downtime deployment patterns for production systems.

## When to Use This Skill

Use this skill when:
- Implementing zero-downtime deployments
- Reducing deployment risk
- Enabling instant rollbacks
- Running canary releases
- Performing A/B testing in production

## Prerequisites

- Load balancer or ingress controller
- Container orchestration (K8s) or cloud platform
- CI/CD pipeline
- Health check endpoints

## Deployment Strategy Overview

```
┌─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
│                    DEPLOYMENT STRATEGIES                     │
├─────────────┬─────────────┬─────────────┬──────────────────┤
│  Blue-Green │   Canary    │   Rolling   │    Recreate      │
├─────────────┼─────────────┼─────────────┼──────────────────┤
│ Full env    │ Gradual %   │ Pod by pod  │ All at once      │
│ swap        │ rollout     │ replacement │                  │
…

Excerpt only, quoted from the author's repository. Open the repository for the complete file.

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