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Deployment Promotion Controls

Deployment Promotion Controls

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2022–2024

Vercel's platform supports advanced deployment strategies like blue-green deployments by leveraging immutable deployments, serverless architecture, Skew Protection, Edge Config, and Middleware. This allows for safe, cost-efficient rollouts with minimal infrastructure overhead and granular control over traffic allocation and user experience. The platform also enables innovative strategies like multicolor and shadow rollouts. Skew Protection ensures that clients that loaded the form with the old f. Deployment protection offers flexible ways to make Preview Deployments private and accessible with Vercel Authentication or Shareable Links. Advanced Deployment Protection provides header secrets for programmatic access (e.g., E2E testing), password protection, and the ability to protect Production Deployments.

2024

Deploying safely on Vercel without merge queues

2/26/2024

Introduces the ability to disable automatic promotion of production deployments on Vercel. This allows for custom checks to be run on a production deployment before it is made live to end-users. The post details how to leverage webhooks for deployment status updates and the Vercel CLI/API to manually promote deployments after custom checks are completed. This workflow is presented as an alternative to merge queues for improving deployment safety and developer productivity.

2022

Deployment Protection: Added security controls now available on all plans

12/19/2022

Introduced Vercel Authentication for securing preview deployments with Vercel accounts, Shareable Links for external collaborators (beta), and Advanced Deployment Protection for teams with strong security requirements. Advanced Deployment Protection includes a header secret for programmatic access (beta) and password protection. Production Deployments can now also be protected.

Deployment Protection: Added security controls now available on all plans

12/19/2022

Introduces Deployment Protection features: Vercel Authentication for securing preview deployments with Vercel accounts, Shareable Links for external collaborators without login, and Advanced Deployment Protection for enhanced security including header secrets for automation (E2E testing), password protection, and private production deployments. Vercel Authentication replaces SSO Protection for Enterprise. Advanced Deployment Protection is available as an add-on for Pro and included in Enterprise plans.