With the rise of DevOps—and the adoption of continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) practices—releases and deployments are happening faster than ever before. But changes must also roll out smoothly—not just frequently. In this webinar, you’ll learn when and how to cross the threshold from deployment to the next version. You’ll discover tips for balancing deployment velocity and quality to determine if—and when—a deployment should be considered complete and deemed a success. You’ll gain insights into: How to measure the success of your continuous deployment efforts When to make the go/no-go deployment decision for both patch and major releases Why—and how—to use connection draining to maintain a positive user experience Register today to discover technical strategies for optimizing delivery speed and stability in the world of continuous deployment!

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When is a Deployment Over?
Aaron Newcomb, Senior Product Marketing Manager
Ravi Lachhman, Technical Evangelist

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5. Hosts
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Aaron Newcomb – Senior Product Marketing Manager
Ravi Lachhman – Technical Evangelist

6. Main Themes for Today
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• Don’t boil the ocean.
• Define success before the deployment.
• One deployment strategy doesn’t fit all.

7. Let’s go on a Journey!

8. Case Study: WineForCats.com
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9. Minor Change:
1.0.1 -> 1.0.2
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10. What did you just do?
1.0.1 -> 1.0.2
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11. Major Change
1.x.x -> 2.0.0
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12. What are you going to have to do?
1.x.x -> 2.0.0
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13. Zero Down Time or Else
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14. Iterate and GO!
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15. Blue/Green
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1.0 1.0 1.0 2.0 2.0 2.0

16. Canary
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1.0 1.0 Canary Canary Canary 2.0

17. 1%
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1.0 1.0 1.0
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18. Rolling
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1.0 1.0 1.0 2.0 2.0 2.0

19. Kill First/Last
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1.0 1.0 1.0 2.0 2.0 2.0

20. One Size Doesn’t Fit All
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21. Don’t Boil the Ocean
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22. Conservative Approach
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23. What about the other 99%?
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24. Connection Draining
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25. When is the Deployment Over?
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26. Gaining Traction - Spinnaker
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27. Gaining Traction - Harness.io
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28. Find and Validate SLIs/SLOs
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29. Reduce MTTR
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“You can’t have successful DevOps unless everyone has the means to
work together. Before we had the blame game, but with AppDynamics
in place, the hosting team can identify the exact SQL statement or line
of .NET code causing problems when the CPU experienced errant
behavior. The ability to provide a time slice of what was going on gives
a clear and consistent message to the Dev team. It makes it easy to
find root cause and take corrective action.”
Jeff Brady, Product Manager at Allscripts

30. Decrease Failure Rate
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31. Reduce Lead Time
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32. Improve Release Frequency
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“With AppDynamics, I get a customer-centric
view of end-user behavior, making it easier
for us to comply with individual SLAs.
AppDynamics gives us confidence that we
are not introducing regressions, even as we
increase release velocity.”
Jacob Ramsey, Q2eBanking

33. What did I just learn?
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• Don’t boil the ocean.
• Define success before the deployment.
• One deployment strategy doesn’t fit all.

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35. Before you go (resources)
• Semantic Versioning - https://semver.org/
• Spinnaker Project - https://www.spinnaker.io/
• Harness - https://harness.io/
• Cloud Deployment Manager - https://cloud.google.com/deployment-manager/
• AWS Connection Draining -
https://docs.aws.amazon.com/elasticloadbalancing/latest/classic/config-conn-drain.html
• AppD Digital Transformation - https://www.appdynamics.com/lp/why-devops-is-an-
essential-part-of-digital-transformation/
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