[keithyjohnson]

Cost can be a killer here though. If you're flipping from blue to green and vice versa you either have to have capacity in stand-by(expensive) or spin up new capacity before flipping(time-consuming).

[1ba9115454]

We use a blue/green strategy but our infrastructure can be created on demand with Pulumi. https://www.pulumi.com/

It takes Pulumi about 15 minutes to create our kubernetes cluster with all pods and monitoring in place.

After a succesful rollout we can pulumi down one of the clusters and reduce costs (We're on azure.)