HAProxy Enterprise Documentation 1.6r2

Blue-Green Deployments

In the blue-green deployment release model, traffic is gradually transferred from a production backend, referred to as blue, to a nearly-identical new release referred to as green.

Examples

Use an HAProxy Enterprise map file and the Runtime API to manage this type of deployment.

  1. Create a text file at /etc/hapee-1.6/maps/bluegreen.map with a single entry:

    active backend_blue

  2. Modify your HAProxy Enterprise configuration to include both a blue and a green backend and add a use_backend directive to your frontend to reference the map file.

    The backend currently set in the map file will be selected for all traffic.

    frontend fe_main
    bind :80
    use_backend %[str(active),map(/etc/hapee-1.6/maps/bluegreen.map)]

backend backend_blue
    server server1 10.0.0.3:80 check
    server server2 10.0.0.4:80 check

backend backend_green
    server server1 10.0.0.5:80 check
    server server2 10.0.0.6:80 check

  3. Use the Runtime API to modify the map to move traffic from blue to green as open connections to be_blue close:

    $  echo "set map /etc/hapee-1.6/maps/bluegreen.map active be_green" | socat stdio /var/run/hapee-1.6/hapee-lb.sock

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