Rollback

How it is used

The noun is one word, 'rollback'; the verb is two, 'roll back'. Teams say 'do a rollback', 'trigger a rollback' or 'roll back the release'. A good pipeline makes rollback fast and boring.

Example sentences

1. Error rates doubled after the release, so we did a rollback within five minutes.

2. A database migration can make a rollback much harder, so plan it carefully.

Common collocations

• do a rollback
• automatic rollback
• rollback plan
• trigger a rollback

Related terms

• deployTo put a new version of an application or service onto servers so that it starts running there, for example in a test environment or for real users.
• deploymentThe act of putting a new version of software onto servers, or one particular time this is done. In Kubernetes it is also the name of an object that manages a set of identical pods.
• productionThe live environment that real customers use. A problem in production affects users directly, so changes there are made with the most care.
• blue-green deploymentA release method with two identical production environments: the new version is put on the idle one, then all traffic is switched to it at once.
• feature flagA setting that turns a feature on or off without deploying new code, so it can be shown to some users, tested in production or switched off quickly.

This word in other fields

The same English word can have a different meaning in another field:

• rollback · Databases & SQL

More terms: DevOps and CI/CD

• DevOps
• pipeline
• CI/CD
• environment
• staging
• build
• continuous integration
• continuous delivery
• artifact
• canary release
• roll out