https://nalar.dev/tags/deployments/ Recent content in Deployments on Nalar Hugo en-us Wed, 02 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0700 https://nalar.dev/graceful-shutdown-and-connection-draining-for-cloud-services/ Wed, 02 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0700 https://nalar.dev/graceful-shutdown-and-connection-draining-for-cloud-services/ <p>Cloud services are stopped routinely: deployments replace instances, autoscalers remove capacity, hosts reboot, and schedulers reschedule workloads. If a process exits immediately when it receives a termination signal, in-flight requests can fail even when the service is otherwise healthy.</p> <p>Graceful shutdown is a small lifecycle protocol: stop taking new work, allow useful work already in progress to finish within a deadline, then release resources and exit.</p> <h2 id="separate-readiness-from-process-health">Separate readiness from process health</h2> <p>A process that is shutting down may still be alive but should no longer receive new traffic.</p>