Blue Green Deployments CloudFront and Ruby on Jets

Blue Green Deployments CloudFront and Ruby on Jets

December 8, 2023

Tags:

jets ruby

We'll show one way to do a blue-green deployment with Ruby on Jets. We'll use CloudFront to control the switch over. CloudFront deploys faster nowadays than most people realize.

Here's the bash loop I ran to see how long the switchover took.

while true ; do
  date
  curl https://demo.lrn.boltops.com
  echo
  sleep 1
done

Change the URL to your own.

GitHub boltops-learn/demo-blue-green-deployment

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