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Progressive Delivery

Automate canary and blue-green with metric analysis.

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What you will learn

  • Use Argo Rollouts
  • Drive rollouts by metrics
  • Automate rollback

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The basics, in plain English

Progressive delivery means rolling out a new version slowly and carefully instead of switching everyone at once. You send the new version to a small group first, watch for problems, and only continue if all looks well. This limits the damage if the new version is bad.

Progressive delivery
Releasing a change gradually to small groups before everyone gets it.
Canary
Sending the new version to a tiny slice of users first as a test.
Blue-green
Running old and new versions side by side, then switching traffic over.
Rollback
Quickly going back to the old version if the new one misbehaves.
Metrics gate
A check that pauses the rollout if error rates climb.
Blast radius
How many users a bad release can hurt, which gradual rollout keeps small.
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Metric-driven

Argo Rollouts and Flagger shift traffic gradually and analyze metrics, automatically rolling back if error rates climb.

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