Project Title: Zero-Downtime Deployments with Blue-Green Strategy on Azure
Key Technologies:
- Microsoft Azure (App Service, Deployment Slots)
- Node.js
- GitHub Actions (CI/CD)
- Git
Project Description
This project implements a classic blue-green deployment pipeline to achieve zero-downtime updates for a web application. The core idea is to maintain two identical production environments, "Blue" and "Green." While one environment is live, the other serves as a staging area for the new version.
The project uses GitHub Actions to automate the deployment of a simple Node.js application to an Azure App Service. The CI/CD pipeline deploys the new code to the non-production slot, allows for verification and testing, and then swaps it into the production slot with a single action. This ensures a seamless user experience with no service interruption during updates.
This project highlights skills in cloud infrastructure, CI/CD, and advanced deployment patterns. It emphasizes the benefits of this approach, such as reduced risk, instant rollback capability, and improved application availability.