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This white paper discusses an innovative approach to systematically implement the blue-green deployment methodology for zero planned outage of IT infrastructure.
Challenges
The need for regular maintenance and upkeep of assets presents us with the unique challenge to ensure that our deployment strategy results in minimal or near zero planned downtime. More importantly, we need make sure that the planned downtime does not create the risk of disruption, which could result in monetary and productivity losses for our customers.
Solution
This whitepaper describes the blue-green deployment approach from the point-of-view of a managed service provider, and a systematic process to implement this methodology, to improve availability by proactively reducing planned downtime.