Octopus Easy Mode - Blue/green deployments

Blue/green deployments reduce production risk by maintaining two identical environments, with traffic routed to only one while new releases are deployed and validated in the idle environment, enabling rapid rollback if problems occur. The post explains how to use Octopus Cloud and its AI Assistant to create a sample IIS-based .NET deployment project called “19. Blue-Green deployments,” which alternates releases between Production - Blue and Production - Green. A custom lifecycle requires releases to progress through Development and Test before optionally deploying to either production slot, while a community step template checks whether the same environment was targeted consecutively and provides an output variable for later enforcement. The example uses a manual intervention step to warn and require approval for consecutive deployments to one slot, and it blocks a successfully deployed release from subsequently progressing to the other production environment. Although tenants can represent blue and green stacks, the post recommends environments because they are easier to visualize in Octopus and support release-progression blocking.

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