Implementing Maintenance Toggles For Smooth Application Management
Implementing maintenance toggles for apps allows manual control over traffic, saving time in troubleshooting & reducing production impact. Flip the switch & divert traffic to another zone while instances stay up & running!
Image generated by AI Do you have an on-and-off switch for your applications? I build one by default for all my applications, and they’ve saved me on more than one occasion! 😅 In the past, I’ve discussed health checks and readiness probes and how to use them to redirect traffic from unhealthy application instances. Another technique that goes along with this concept is maintenance toggles. The idea behind a maintenance toggle is that it acts as a switch that allows you to put your application in “maintenance mode.” What that maintenance mode does will depend on the application in question. Fo...