In a Blue / Green deployment system, what is each one called?

Question

I am working on setting up Blue/Green deployments for my Kubernetes system. I need to make a variable for which one I am currently on (Blue or Green)

But I don't know what a single one of them is called. Channel, pipeline, side, part, state, ... ?

What is one side of the Blue/Green deployment system called?

Or is there no generally accepted name for this? (maybe I need to call my variable CurrentBlueGreenStatus)

Answer 1

I think what you are basically trying to do here is to "reinventing the wheel". Blue/Green deployment is just a release concept or model so to me the name is in fact deployment, eventually deploymentType. In some cases it's being called environment, app or even server.

In software engineering, blue-green deployment is a method of installing changes to a web, app, or database server by swapping alternating production and staging servers.