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World Congress 2024 • Aug 20, 2024 • Session details

Progressive Delivery in Kubernetes

Carlos Sanchez

Stop risking outages with all-or-nothing deployments. Learn how Argo Rollouts and AI automate Kubernetes canary releases, triggering instant rollbacks before users even notice.

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#1 about 4 min

Defining progressive delivery and core deployment safety

Progressive delivery introduces targeted deployment strategies to replace risky all-or-nothing software updates.

#2 about 2 min

Core business benefits and goals of progressive delivery

Limiting application blast radius and reducing downtime encourages faster shipping from idea to production.

#3 about 5 min

Comparing Kubernetes deployment strategies and routing techniques

Techniques like rolling updates, blue-green deployments, canary releases, and feature flags offer different structural advantages.

#4 about 2 min

Monitoring and automation as production testing safeguards

Robust production monitoring and deployment automation reduce the reliance on flawless pre-production testing boundaries.

#5 about 2 min

Understanding Kubernetes services and ingress controller architecture

Load balancers and ingress controllers process external inputs to intelligently route traffic to specific backend pods.

#6 about 3 min

Executing deployment strategies using Argo Rollouts controllers

Argo Rollouts provides custom deployment objects and automated analysis templates for managing declarative traffic shifts.

#7 about 6 min

Scaling traffic safely during a successful canary rollout

Applying gradual traffic scaling and health verification safely promotes a newly released application version.

#8 about 2 min

Automating deployment log verification with generative AI

Integrating an AI model evaluates complex deployment logs to output a stable release promotion confidence score.

#9 about 6 min

Handling deployment failures via automated canary rollbacks

Argo Rollouts dynamically detects backend errors and rapidly reverts a faulty deployment without direct human intervention.

#10 about 1 min

Simplifying software delivery with open source tooling

Adopting open-source infrastructure tools simplifies the foundational implementation of automated rollout and rollback mechanisms.

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