CI/CD & Automation•6 MIN READ•September 8, 2026
Zero-Downtime Blue-Green Releases on EKS with NGINX Ingress
Step-by-step walk-through of engineering zero-downtime Blue-Green deployments on Amazon EKS using NGINX Ingress weight split routing and Jenkins automation.
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BY Yogesh
CLOUD & INFRASTRUCTURE ENGINEER
#DevOps#EKS#Jenkins#NGINX#Blue-Green
Zero-Downtime Blue-Green Releases on EKS
Achieving true zero-downtime releases for production microservices requires isolating green environments, running automated smoke validation, and atomically shifting ingress traffic weights.
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YOGESH
Senior Cloud & DevOps Engineer specializing in AWS cloud infrastructure, EKS Kubernetes, Terraform, and MLOps platforms.