Release pipelines are used for deployment to environments such as development, testing, staging, and production; however, they can also be used for multiple other purposes as well. Some of them are mentioned next.
A/B testing is experimental testing of the application at the user interface level. It tries to mix and change the user interface to evaluate the adaptability, usage, and the consumption of the service. Multiple smaller releases can be made to change the UI aspect of the application and understand the best combination of UI that can lead to the best experience and performance from a usage point of view.
Blue/Green deployments are used to reduce risks in continuous deployment where two sets of production environments are maintained. One is referred to as the Blue environment, and the other is known as the Green environment. At any point of time, only one environment serves requests on production. The other environment is...