Leveraging Service Meshes for A/B, Blue-Green, and Canary Deployments (aka "Progressi...
summary
Demonstrates the open‑source Flagger operator controlling canary, A/B, Blue‑Green and traffic mirroring across Istio, Linkerd and AWS App Mesh using Prometheus metrics and CRDs that link to the deployment name. Progression uses configurable step intervals and a 50% max weight default, with automatic progressive rollbacks on error and webhook hooks for load or chaos tests. Integrates with GitOps via Flux/Helm, real deployments report intervals from minutes up to a week and it updates Git on success.
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chapters (12)
- 0:00Intro
- 0:22Flagger - The Progressive Delivery Operator
- 1:19Flagger overview
- 2:02Deployment Strategies
- 2:41Blue/Green - Deployment Strategy
- 3:15A/B Testing - Deployment Strategy
- 4:16Canary - Deployment Strategy
- 6:10Traffic Mirroring - Deployment Strategy
- 8:12Flagger - Service mesh automation
- 10:54Flagger. Canary CRD
- 17:29Canary CRD - Analysis spec
- 22:01Flagger - Validation process
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