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Switching Traffic to the Green Environment

Switching Traffic to the Green Environment

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Christopher Adamson
Jul 04, 2025
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Switching traffic from the blue environment to the green environment is the core step of the Blue-Green Deployment strategy. This step involves updating the Kubernetes service to route traffic to the green environment pods instead of the blue environment pods. The transition is seamless, ensuring no downtime for users. Additionally, this process allows you to monitor the green environment under production traffic and easily roll back to the blue environment if needed.

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