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Date Published
Author
David Staheli
Word count
1037
Language
English
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None

Summary

Graph artifacts, introduced in Public Preview by Apollo, offer DevOps teams versioned, immutable schemas for managing supergraph deployments with enhanced control and traceability. These artifacts address common challenges faced by teams, such as the inability to pin to a specific schema version, slow rollbacks, and missing audit trails by providing a unique SHA-256 digest for each version, ensuring stability and traceability. By integrating with Apollo Router v2.7 or later, teams can deploy, roll back, and audit schemas with confidence, using industry-standard OCI-compliant tools. This innovation facilitates seamless CI/CD integration, consistent fleet-wide deployments, and compliance-friendly audit trails, transforming how schemas are managed in production environments. The approach allows for promotion from staging to production without drift, instant rollbacks, and consistent schema versioning across distributed deployments, with plans for future improvements to enhance CI/CD support and provide more flexible tooling options.