Zero-Downtime Deployment Plan
Plan rolling, blue-green or canary releases.
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Plan a zero-downtime deployment for [APPLICATION]. Architecture and statefulness: [ARCHITECTURE]. Database changes in this release: [DB_CHANGES]. Traffic management tools: [TRAFFIC_TOOLS]. Risk tolerance: [RISK_TOLERANCE]. Compare rolling, blue-green and canary approaches for my case in a table of cost, speed, rollback ease, and risk, then recommend one with the conditions. Write the step-by-step rollout plan including health checks, readiness gates, connection draining, session handling, and the exact signals and thresholds that decide to proceed or abort. Explain the expand-contract pattern for the database changes with the order of steps across releases. Add a pre-deployment checklist, a monitoring watch list for the first hour, and a rollback procedure. Add a table of failure scenarios during rollout (a bad health check, a slow warm-up, a database lock) and the automatic response for each. Include guidance on how to test the deployment process in a staging environment with a load generator, and a rule for not deploying during peak hours unless an emergency fix is required and approved. Add a worked timeline for the recommended approach using invented numbers: ten instances, a canary of one instance for 15 minutes, then 25, 50 and 100 percent in steps, each with the signals checked and the abort threshold written as a number. Include the expand-contract sequence for one concrete schema change, a nullable column added in release N, written in release N plus 1, read in release N plus 2, and old column dropped in release N plus 3, and say what must be true before moving to the next release. Add a section on what can go wrong with sessions, long-running requests and background workers during draining, with a mitigation for each, and a one-page go/no-go card that an engineer can read in two minutes before starting. Close with a table of the signals to watch in the first hour (error rate, latency percentile, saturation, queue depth, business metric) with the abort threshold for each written as an editable number.
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