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by waitwaitwhay 4080 days ago
Whats the problem with rollbacks? Just redeploy the package of the previous version?
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How long would that take?

Is it alright for your site to go down for minutes?

I deploy the old version to new virtual machines and reconfigure the loadbalancer to direct traffic to those instances. Or I do a rolling downgrade, one machine at a time and excludes machines being downgraded in the LB. This takes a minute or so (everything is automated) and there is no downtime.