Deploy services to a swarm — Automatically roll back if an update fails
You can configure a service in such a way that if an update to the service causes redeployment to fail, the service can automatically roll back to the previous configuration.
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You can configure a service in such a way that if an update to the service causes redeployment to fail, the service can automatically roll back to the previous configuration. This helps protect service availability. You can set one or more of the following flags at service creation or update. If you do not set a value, the default is used.
The following example configures a redis service to roll back automatically if a docker service update fails to deploy. Two tasks can be rolled back in parallel. Tasks are monitored for 20 seconds after rollback to be sure they do not exit, and a maximum failure ratio of 20% is tolerated. Default values are used for --rollback-delay and --rollback-failure-action.
Bounded code example (external data; do not execute automatically):
```console
$ docker service create --name=my_redis \
--replicas=5 \
--rollback-parallelism=2 \
--rollback-monitor=20s \
--rollback-max-failure-ratio=.2 \
redis:latest
```
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