Reduce Deployment Risk with Blue-Green Deployments

This page shows you how to deploy a new version of your App and migrate traffic over from an old to a new version.

Pushing the initial App

Use the Kf CLI to push the initial version of your App with any Routes:

 $  
kf  
push  
app-v1  
--route  
my-app.my-space.example.com 

Pushing the updated App

Use the Kf CLI to push a new version of your App without any Routes:

 $  
kf  
push  
app-v2  
--no-route 

Adding Routes to the updated App

Use the Kf CLI to bind all existing Routes to the updated App with a weight of 0 to ensure they don't get any requests.

 $  
kf  
map-route  
app-v2  
my-space.example.com  
--hostname  
my-app  
--weight  
 0 
 

Shifting traffic

Start shifting traffic from the old App to the updated App by updating the weights on the Routes.

 $  
kf  
map-route  
app-v1  
my-space.example.com  
--hostname  
my-app  
--weight  
 80 
$  
kf  
map-route  
app-v2  
my-space.example.com  
--hostname  
my-app  
--weight  
 20 
 

If the deployment is going well, you can shift more traffic by updating the weights again:

 $  
kf  
map-route  
app-v1  
my-space.example.com  
--hostname  
my-app  
--weight  
 50 
$  
kf  
map-route  
app-v2  
my-space.example.com  
--hostname  
my-app  
--weight  
 50 
 

Completing traffic shifting

Once you're satisfied that the new service hasn't introduced regressions, complete the rollout by shifting all traffic to the new instance:

 $  
kf  
map-route  
app-v1  
my-space.example.com  
--hostname  
my-app  
--weight  
 0 
$  
kf  
map-route  
app-v2  
my-space.example.com  
--hostname  
my-app  
--weight  
 100 
 

Turning down the original App

Once you're satisfied that quick rollbacks aren't needed, remove the original route and stop the App:

 $  
kf  
unmap-route  
app-v1  
myspace.example.com  
--hostname  
my-app
$  
kf  
stop  
app-v1 

Or delete the App and all associated Route mappings:

 $  
kf  
delete  
app-v1 
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