Continuous deployment at Skyscanner

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Skyscanner moves from slow, agent-based CI to container-first pipelines using Drone CI for ephemeral builds, Artifactory/ECR for images, and ECS blue‑green deployments with a Slingshot API layered on AWS SWF. The platform instruments traffic via an HAProxy sidecar into OpenTSDB/Grafana for automated checks, survives a container registry outage lesson, migrates 8,500 repos over 10 weeks, and achieves roughly 21,000 deploys/month by iterating incrementally rather than buying Kubernetes up front.

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1. 0:00Introduction
2. 1:24Continuous deployment goals
3. 3:07Defining CD models
4. 5:05Initial challenges
5. 8:56Scaling problems
6. 12:02Implementing Drone CI
7. 14:15Blue-green deployment
8. 16:25Monitoring and visibility
9. 18:42Slingshot platform
10. 21:41CD benefits
11. 27:06Container registry failures
12. 29:11Source control migration
13. 31:17Automated testing
14. 32:22Future and impact
15. 34:34Key takeaways

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