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Rollback strategies and version control in Deployment

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Rollback strategies and version control in Deployment

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- [Instructor] No matter how careful we are, deployment issues happen. Having a rollback plan in place ensures that you can quickly recover from failures without disrupting your WordPress site. In this video, we'll explore rollback strategies, version control best practices, and how to ensure seamless recovery from deployment mistakes. Let's get started. Even with careful testing, deployments can fail due to buggy code from new updates introducing unexpected issues, performance issues when new codes slows down the site, and security concerns, vulnerabilities might be introduced by an update. A rollback strategy lets you quickly restore a working version, minimizing downtime and user frustration. There are multiple rollback strategies to choose from. You might choose version revert using Git to rollback to a previous commit, a blue-green deployment, switching between two identical environments, or feature flags where you can enable and disable new features without redeploying. And…

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