Zero-Downtime CI/CD Production Deployments for Insurance SaaS Using Blue/Green Deployments
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.63282/3050-922X.IJERET-V4I3P111Keywords:
Blue/Green Deployment, Zero-Downtime, CI/CD, Insurance SaaS, DevOps, Cloud Computing, Continuous DeliveryAbstract
The continued evolution of the Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) within the insurance industry demands that deployment strategies be installed to guarantee availability, scalability, and fault tolerance and minimized downtime. Traditional deployment approaches (rolling updates/canary releases) are capable of introducing both risk and latency to important applications. A framework that would be effective to apply in order to achieve zero-downtime deployments in Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) pipelines would be the blue /green deployment strategy. This paper also elaborates on conceptual underpinning, issue and practical application of Blue/Green deployments in Insurance SaaS production systems. A mix of Blue/Green strategies and CI/CD practices will enable the insurance companies to ensure that their availability is not low and regulatory scrutiny is not compromised and that sensitive customer information is not at the risk. The provided methodology provides end to end architecture like automated testing, monitoring, rollback and orchestration within the cloud. Results of a virtualized SaaS environment reveal reduced Mean Time to Recovery (MTTR), increased deployment success and improved customer experience. The provided paper will contribute to the DevOps realm of insurance SaaS sphere as it will provide the systematic approach, as well as expand on the trade-off that is possible when creating the Blue/Green deployments
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