Microservices Part 5: Preview a Branch and Roll Back

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Full tutorial with screenshots: https://blog.light-cloud.com/tutorials/microservices-on-light-cloud-part-5-branches-and-rollback

Part 5 of 6 of the series Microservices on Light Cloud.

Use Light Cloud branch environments to preview a change across three services, merge it into production, and roll back a bad deploy in 13 seconds without a rebuild.

Level: Intermediate · Time: about 25 minutes · Plan: Starter · Stack: Git, GitHub, Node.js, React

Steps

• Step 1: Push a feature branch
• Step 2: Test the changed service on its own URL
• Step 3: Know what a preview is connected to
• Step 4: Wire a full preview
• Step 5: Open a pull request
• Step 6: Merge
• Step 7: Roll back a bad deploy
• Step 8: Fix main

Source code: https://github.com/light-cloud-com/tutorial-microservices
Live demo: https://main-web-examples.light-cloud.io

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