Canary Deployment: Tutorial & Examples

Canary deployment is a strategy for releasing new features in a live SaaS environment, gradually rolling out new versions to avoid widespread issues. It originated from the mining industry, where canaries were used to detect toxic gases. In Kubernetes, this strategy allows for controlled and gradual deployment of new pods/instances, facilitating easy rollback and avoiding downtime. Other deployment strategies discussed include basic/recreate, rolling, and blue-green, each with their own pros and cons.

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