23 Apr 2025
Canary Deployments — A Safer Way to Release Software
A progressive deployment strategy that rolls out new service versions incrementally by routing a small subset of traffic to the latest version while most continues using the stable version.
Originally published on engineering.leanix.net.
A progressive deployment strategy that allows us to roll out new service versions incrementally by routing a small subset of traffic to the latest version while most continues using the stable version. Done well, canary deployments turn release risk into something you can dial up and down by the percent.