Zero-downtime deployment with HAProxy as load balancer

Filed under: Automation, Continuous deployment, Linux, Tools, — Tags: Gatlin, HAProxy — Thomas Sundberg — 2017-03-29

I want to deploy new versions of an application with no downtime. It turns out to be a bit tricky. Here is one solution that sort of works.

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Continuous deployment - a case study

Filed under: Automation, Continuous deployment, Gradle, — Tags: Gradle Plugin, Jenkins, Puppet, artifactory, continuous delivery, continuous deployment, rpm — Thomas Sundberg — 2015-12-23

Continuous deployment is considered, among some enlightened, to be the holy grail in many organisations where software is developed.

What is continuous deployment then? My interpretation is that every change is deployed into production. That is, every change that passes the quality gates the team has created.

A relaxed version is continuous delivery. Continuous delivery means that every change that passes the quality gates ends up as a release candidate. A release candidate that is possible to deploy into to production. The deployment will, however, be done later. If ever.

I will describe how I implemented continuous deployment for one product and continuous delivery for three others for a client.

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