Updating Your Services
This tutorial will show you how to update your services in Defang.
Updating a Service
To update your app (for example, updating the base image of your container, or making changes to your code) all you have to do is run the defang compose up command and it will build and deploy a new version.
Deploying New Services or Removing Existing Services
If you are using Compose files to define your services, you can add/remove services, make changes to code, etc. When you run defang compose up, the update will be diffed against the current state and any necessary changes will be applied to make the current state match the desired state.
Deployment Modes
Defang offers multiple deployment modes. You can specify which mode you would like to be used when you deploy with the --mode flag on the CLI. The default mode is development. You may also specify staging or production.
$ defang compose up --mode=production
Development Mode (Default)
The default deployment mode is development. This is the In this mode, the existing services will be deprovisioned before your new service will be spun up. This means that there will be a short downtime while the new service is being provisioned.
Production Mode (Zero-downtime Updates)
If you are running in production mode, the update will be done with zero downtime. Your current version of the service will keep running and handling traffic while the new version is being built and deployed. Only after the new version passes the health checks and accepts traffic will the older version be stopped.
For more information on Deployment Modes, see the Deployment Modes concept documentation.