Thanks for the link. Yes I was excited to see AWS moving higher up the stack and offer code pipeline and deployment options, but CodeDeploy is exactly what would have been designed (and in fact was) if EC2, ELBs and AutoScaling did not exist. It was born 18 years ago. It suffers from all the same issues that any rolling update with mutable infrastructure does.
Blue/Green, while harder to use without tooling like CloudNative adds, has numerous benefits including near instant rollback to a previously known good state.
Blue/Green, while harder to use without tooling like CloudNative adds, has numerous benefits including near instant rollback to a previously known good state.
Netflix figured this out 5 years ago.