Demo: Performing Rollbacks in AWS CodeDeploy

Deployment failures are common in DevOps projects that deliver frequent releases. The project teams must decide early on how to react during such failures.

AWS CodeDeploy Rollbacks feature

AWS CodeDeploy offers an option to rollback an application revision during failure, and the last known good revision is redeployed. To achieve this, we must make a few changes to our deployment group. Under the “Advanced” section, CodeDeploy offers an option to enable or disable rollbacks.

We have a couple of options:

• Roll back in case a deployment fails: This failure could be because of bad application code, network issues, ...