In a blue-green deployment, what is the purpose of the 'green' environment?

To run the CI/CD pipeline itself

To serve as the staging environment for manual testing

To host the new version of the application while the 'blue' environment continues to serve production traffic

A team has implemented a blue-green deployment strategy. After switching traffic to the green environment, they notice a significant increase in error rates. They want to minimize user impact. What is the most appropriate immediate action?

Keep the green environment running and investigate the errors

Switch the load balancer back to the blue environment

Stop all traffic to the application to prevent further errors

Redeploy the green environment with the previous version of the application

Which of the following is a typical output of a build automation step in a CI pipeline?

A report of production server CPU usage

A compiled binary or package ready for deployment

A list of developers who committed code

A set of user stories for the next sprint

A team's CI pipeline builds a Docker image and pushes it to a container registry. They want to ensure that the image does not contain known vulnerable packages before it is deployed. Which practice should be integrated into the pipeline?

Manually review the Dockerfile for any known vulnerable packages

Rely on the base image provider to ensure the image is secure

Run a vulnerability scanner on the Docker image as a stage in the CI pipeline

Scan the image only after it has been deployed to production

What is the primary purpose of an artifact repository in a CI/CD pipeline?

To store source code and track changes

To monitor application logs in production

To store build outputs and manage their versions

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16foundation · easy
In a blue-green deployment, what is the purpose of the 'green' environment?
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17expert · hard
A team has implemented a blue-green deployment strategy. After switching traffic to the green environment, they notice a significant increase in error rates. They want to minimize user impact. What is the most appropriate immediate action?
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18foundation · easy
Which of the following is a typical output of a build automation step in a CI pipeline?
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19application · medium
A team's CI pipeline builds a Docker image and pushes it to a container registry. They want to ensure that the image does not contain known vulnerable packages before it is deployed. Which practice should be integrated into the pipeline?
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20foundation · easy
What is the primary purpose of an artifact repository in a CI/CD pipeline?
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