Rollbacks in the VIP Dashboard

As an alternative to reverting a pull request in GitHub, a rollback to a previous commit can be performed in the Deployments panel of the VIP Dashboard for an environment.

Previous deployments that are eligible for a rollback will display a button in the column labeled “Rollbacks“. The rollback capability for WordPress and Node.js environments is limited to:

• The most recent 6 deployments for a production environment.
• The most recent 3 deployments for non-production environments.

When a rollback occurs, an existing image of the selected commit is deployed to the environment. Only the code that is part of that commit is deployed to the environment. The state of an application’s GitHub repository commit history—and the state of the environment’s database—remain unchanged.

If the code currently deployed to an environment is in a rolled back state, a notice will be displayed in the Overview panel and the Deployments panel of the VIP Dashboard.

Access

1. Navigate to the VIP Dashboard for an application.
2. Select an environment from the environment dropdown located at the upper left of the VIP Dashboard.
3. Select “Deployments” from the lefthand navigation menu.

Roll back to a previous deployment

To initiate a rollback to a previous deployment:

1. Navigate to the VIP Dashboard for an application.
2. Select an environment (e.g., production, develop) from the dropdown located at the upper left of the dashboard.
3. Select “Deployments” from the sidebar navigation at the left of the screen.
4. Select the button in the column labeled “Rollbacks” of an eligible deployment.
5. In the confirmation dialog, select the button labeled “Confirm Rollback“ to proceed with the rollback process. To exit the rollback process, the button labeled “Cancel” can be selected instead.

On an architecture of one repository powering multiple applications (A and B, for example), a rollback back on application A would only affect application A; application B would not be rolled back.