[akoncius]

well balancing is done on DNS level, and it’s not required to have literal loadbalancer.

[moralestapia]

Blue/green usually involves moving traffic from blue <-> green gradually. You usually do this with a load balancer. That is all.

[outworlder]

Usually, yes. But now some[one|thing] will have to do the monitoring and gradually ramp up traffic, rollback, etc.

It's perfectly ok to immediately flip the entire traffic if you are a one man shop and your customers will tolerate it.

[abrookewood]

I've never heard that the gradual moving of traffic was a requirement for B-G deployment (though it is helpful), just that you 'flip a switch' between one running server and another one.