Zero-Downtime Django Deployments on Kubernetes — Blue-Green Strategy & Safe Migrations

🚀 Say goodbye to downtime during Django deployments!

This guide dives deep into how to safely deploy Django apps on Kubernetes using a Blue-Green strategy, all while ensuring your database migrations don’t break production.

This blog is perfect for:

• 🧑‍💻 Django developers deploying on Kubernetes
• 🛠️ DevOps engineers building robust CI/CD pipelines
• ⚙️ Teams that want rollback-safe deployments

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🧠 What You’ll Learn

✅ Setting up Blue-Green deployments in Kubernetes

✅ Handling safe database migrations without breaking live traffic

✅ Automating with GitHub Actions

✅ Avoiding common migration pitfalls

✅ Using readiness probes for validation

✅ Building a rollback strategy that just works

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📁 Tech Stack

• Django 4.x
• PostgreSQL
• Kubernetes (kubectl, manifests, jobs)
• GitHub Actions for CI/CD
• Docker

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📦 Bonus: Migration Strategy Template

Learn how to break down your schema changes in three safe steps:

1. Add with null=True
2. Backfill data via job
3. Remove null=True with confidence

This helps you avoid:

• NodeNotFoundError
• Locking your production DB
• Breaking running containers

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🧵 Full blog with step-by-step implementation and diagrams:

👉 Zero-Downtime Django Deployments on Kubernetes

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