Rolling Deployments Explained: Seamless Software Delivery

In this video, Eric Minick from Harness explains the fundamentals of rolling deployments and how they help maintain a seamless user experience during software updates. Key topics covered include:

• How Rolling Deployments Work: Learn how a load balancer manages traffic to maintain application availability while individual nodes are taken offline, upgraded, and returned to service one by one.
• Avoiding the "Big Bang": Understand the risks of updating all servers simultaneously, which causes downtime and negatively impacts user experience.
• Maintaining Capacity: Discover how this strategy allows you to keep the majority of your infrastructure capacity online during the update process, ensuring users are largely unaffected.

Whether you are looking for simple implementation or consistent application uptime, rolling deployments offer a powerful strategy for modern software delivery.

Learn more about Rolling Deployments and Harness Continuous Delivery:

• https://www.harness.io/blog/difference-between-rolling-and-blue-green-deployments
• https://www.harness.io/harness-devops-academy/rolling-deployment
• https://www.harness.io/products/continuous-delivery/deploy-anywhere

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