Blue-Green deployment of Sitecore solutions hosted in Azure PaaS
Some time ago I had the opportunity to incorporate the Blue-Green deployment strategy into a Sitecore solution hosted in Azure Platform-as-a-Service model.
To be completely honest, the task seemed scary at first. Fortunately, thanks to Sitecore's rule-based configuration and some Azure magic, it was nowhere as challenging as I initially thought it to be.
A couple of months later, an opportunity arose to write a blog post for the launch of Cognifide's tech blog and I chose to write about some of the issues we faced when going blue-green and how we solved them.
Read the post here (and take a look at some other great articles like this one from Jakub Wajs):
Blue-Green deployment of Sitecore solutions hosted in Azure PaaS
Deploying the latest codebase of your Sitecore solution is rarely a worry-free process. There are many things that may go wrong, even if everything was fine on a staging environment. Read on to learn how to make deployments easier and painless for the benefit of both the developer and the client.
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