In this video, we break down how a blue-green deployment on AWS actually works, then hand you free hands-on labs to build it yourself. This is the explainer. The real learning happens when your own hands are on the keyboard.
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You get two kinds of free labs. First, a lab for each core piece, the VPC, the EC2 servers, and the load balancer, so you can practice the building blocks on their own. Then a capstone where you wire the whole blue-green setup from scratch: launch blue on version one and green on version two, register TG Blue and TG Green, stand up the load balancer, and run the canary shift yourself from 80/20 to a full cutover, with zero downtime.
The video is the quick map so the labs make sense: one VPC across two availability zones, two EC2 servers, a security group, target groups, and an Application Load Balancer that moves traffic on a dial. Watch it once, then go build it.
⏰ Timestamps:
00:00 - Introduction to Blue-Green Deployment
00:37 - The network: VPC and internet gateway
01:01 - Blue and green EC2 servers
02:05 - Target groups: TG Blue and TG Green
02:36 - The canary shift: 80/20 to full cutover
03:47 - Hands-on labs: mini labs and the capstone
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