Canary Release - Risk-reducing technique to launch Scalable Product

It is a technique to reduce the risk of introducing a release in production, by slowly rolling out the change to a small subset of users, before rolling it out to the entire user base. Canary releases allow selective production testing and feature validation without impacting everyone.

Advantage of Canary Release:

If a feature's performance is not satisfactory, then it can be rolled back without any adverse effects.

Who used Canary Release deployment?

Some of the famous products are :

Steps of a Canary Deployment:

1. Deploy to one or more canary servers
2. Test, or wait until satisfied
3. Deploy to the remaining servers

Tools support Canary Deployment:

1. Octopus

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