Blue-Green and Canary Deployments Quiz

What you'll be asked

1. What is the primary goal of a Blue-Green deployment strategy?
2. In a Canary deployment, what is the standard procedure after routing a small percentage of traffic to the new version?
3. Which scenario best justifies the use of a Canary deployment over a Blue-Green deployment?
4. You are performing a Blue-Green deployment and the 'Green' environment (new version) experiences a critical database connection error immediately after cutover. What is the most efficient next step?
5. When implementing a Canary deployment using a service mesh, why is it critical to manage session affinity (sticky sessions)?

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