3 years ago

Category: Software, Kubernetes

Canary deployment is a risk mitigation strategy for software releases. it allows applications developers to limit the damage caused by the release of faulty software updates and roll back such faulty updates quickly and safely without compromising the entire software assets. Canary deployments allow an incremental release of software components, it allows features to be updated/ rolled out in phases.

With canary deployments, software updates can be shipped faster, as buggy updates or releases can be quickly detected and fixed, this gives developers the liberty to deploy as many features as possible as they are built.

In a canary deployment, that condition is whether the user is in the canary group or not.