blue-green deployment

noun

The technique of rolling out changes to a system by alternating the production and staging servers each time. One server is referred to as "green" and the other as "blue".

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Meanings

nounblue-green deployment (uncountable)
  1. uncountablecomputingThe technique of rolling out changes to a system by alternating the production and staging servers each time. One server is referred to as "green" and the other as "blue".
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