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blue green deployment on heroku or another cloud platform as a service

We're currently running a Ruby on Rails project (RefineryCMS) on Heroku with two dynos.

Every time we update the site we experience downtime for about 1 to 2 minutes. Management are not happy about this.

What we'd really like is some sort of (transparent) Blue-Green Deployment: http://martinfowler.com/bliki/BlueGreenDeployment.html

Is this possible to achieve on Heroku or another cloud platform as a service?

We're also using Unicorn, but happy to change if necessary.

Solution

  • Have a look at Heroku pre-boot it's a labs feature but sounds like exactly what you need.