Deployment Patterns Production deployment workflows and CI/CD best practices. When to Activate - Setting up CI/CD pipelines - Dockerizing an application - Planning deployment strategy (blue-green, canary, rolling) - Implementing health checks and readiness probes - Preparing for a production release - Configuring environment-specific settings Deployment Strategies Rolling Deployment (Default) Replace instances gradually — old and new versions run simultaneously during rollout. Pros: Zero downtime, gradual rollout Cons: Two versions run simultaneously — requires backward-compatible changes Use…