# blue-green-deploy

A skill for blue-green, canary and rolling deployments: traffic shifting, health checks and rollback. Useful when a production release can't drop connections.

- skill · `type=skill` · Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Gemini CLI, OpenCode · 332 installs · ★ 1177
- Author: devops-skills
- License: MIT · policy=mirror · the beginning of the file is at the end of this page
- Source: https://github.com/BagelHole/DevOps-Security-Agent-Skills/tree/HEAD/devops/release/blue-green-deploy/SKILL.md
- Updated: 2026-05-22
- HTML: https://affpapa.org/en/nevibecode/skills/blue-green-deploy

## What it does

The skill covers four rollout patterns: blue-green, canary, rolling and recreate. Each comes with Kubernetes manifests — separate blue and green Deployments plus a Service you flip by changing the version selector. There's also a `blue-green-switch.sh` script that checks the rollout status of the new version, hits `/health`, and only then patches the service.

Canary gets two routes. Istio manifests with `VirtualService` and `DestinationRule` split traffic by weight and can pin a request to the canary subset through the `x-canary` header. Argo Rollouts steps through 10, 25, 50 and 75 percent with pauses and a Prometheus success-rate analysis. For AWS ECS the skill includes an `appspec.yml` with CodeDeploy hooks.

You need a load balancer or ingress controller, an orchestrator such as Kubernetes or a cloud platform, a CI/CD pipeline, and a health check endpoint. Without a working `/health` the switch script fails at the check, so wire that up first. Blue-green also doubles your resource footprint, since both environments run at once.

## Requirements
- Works with: Kubernetes

## Install

### Claude Code (native platform)

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add BagelHole/DevOps-Security-Agent-Skills --skill blue-green-deploy -a claude-code
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `~/.claude/skills/blue-green-deploy/SKILL.md` — Copy the whole skill folder; for one project use .claude/skills/blue-green-deploy/

### Codex

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add BagelHole/DevOps-Security-Agent-Skills --skill blue-green-deploy -a codex
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.agents/skills/blue-green-deploy/SKILL.md` — For all projects use ~/.agents/skills/

### Cursor

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add BagelHole/DevOps-Security-Agent-Skills --skill blue-green-deploy -a cursor
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.cursor/skills/blue-green-deploy/SKILL.md` — Cursor also reads .agents/skills/ and .claude/skills/

### GitHub Copilot

1. **GitHub CLI**
```bash
gh skill install BagelHole/DevOps-Security-Agent-Skills blue-green-deploy
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.github/skills/blue-green-deploy/SKILL.md`

### Gemini CLI

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add BagelHole/DevOps-Security-Agent-Skills --skill blue-green-deploy -a gemini-cli
```

2. **Platform CLI**
```bash
gemini skills install https://github.com/BagelHole/DevOps-Security-Agent-Skills --path devops/release/blue-green-deploy
```

### Windsurf (Devin Desktop)

**Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.devin/skills/blue-green-deploy/SKILL.md` — The legacy .windsurf/skills/ path still works

### OpenCode

**Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add BagelHole/DevOps-Security-Agent-Skills --skill blue-green-deploy -a opencode
```

### Claude.ai

**Claude.ai**
- Zip the folder and upload it in Settings → Capabilities → Skills

Where a file is given instead of a command, copy the files from the source to that path: https://github.com/BagelHole/DevOps-Security-Agent-Skills/tree/HEAD/devops/release/blue-green-deploy/SKILL.md

## When to use it
- shift traffic to a new version without dropping connections
- roll back to the previous release in seconds
- send 10 percent of traffic to a canary build and watch the metrics
- verify pod health before production traffic reaches it
- describe a stepped canary rollout in Argo Rollouts

## Example prompts
- Set up a blue-green deployment for my app on Kubernetes: two Deployments and a Service switched by selector
- Create a canary rollout with Istio: 90 percent to stable, 10 to canary, plus a route on the x-canary header
- Write a blue-green switch script that checks rollout status and the /health endpoint

## Source text · SKILL.md · MIT

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---
name: blue-green-deploy
description: Configure zero-downtime deployment strategies including blue-green, canary, and rolling deployments. Implement traffic shifting, health checks, and rollback procedures. Use when implementing production deployment strategies or zero-downtime releases.
license: MIT
metadata:
  author: devops-skills
  version: "1.0"
---

# Blue-Green & Deployment Strategies

Implement zero-downtime deployment patterns for production systems.

## When to Use This Skill

Use this skill when:
- Implementing zero-downtime deployments
- Reducing deployment risk
- Enabling instant rollbacks
- Running canary releases
- Performing A/B testing in production

## Prerequisites

- Load balancer or ingress controller
- Container orchestration (K8s) or cloud platform
- CI/CD pipeline
- Health check endpoints

## Deployment Strategy Overview

```
┌─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
│                    DEPLOYMENT STRATEGIES                     │
├─────────────┬─────────────┬─────────────┬──────────────────┤
│  Blue-Green │   Canary    │   Rolling   │    Recreate      │
├─────────────┼─────────────┼─────────────┼──────────────────┤
│ Full env    │ Gradual %   │ Pod by pod  │ All at once      │
│ swap        │ rollout     │ replacement │                  │
├─────────────┼─────────────┼─────────────┼──────────────────┤
│ Instant     │ Slow, safe  │ Moderate    │ Fast, risky      │
│ rollback    │ rollback    │ rollback    │                  │
├─────────────┼─────────────┼─────────────┼──────────────────┤
````
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