Learn more about Canary deployment, its different stages, the benefits of implementing canary deployments, and much more here in this article!
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While building enterprise applications, you want to ensure that your customers have a bug-free user experience. Since bugs show up whenever a new code is deployed, your deployment process should be set up to identify bugs at an advanced stage before these bugs can affect your users.
Here’s how canary deployment comes into the picture and takes care of everything to enable a seamless and bug-free app release ensuring a flawless experience for your users. Learn and know more about Canary deployment, its different stages, the benefits of implementing canary deployments, and how they are different from blue-green deployments on AWS and ECS here in this blog. Let’s take a look!
Canary deployment is a technique to reduce the risk of bringing in a new software update in production by slowly rolling out the change to a small subset of users before allowing everyone to access the software.
In simpler words, it is the practice of making staged releases. The basic idea is to roll out a software update to a small part of users first, so they may test it and provide feedback. Once the change is accepted and made, the final update is rolled out to the rest of the users. In a typical Canary deployment, traffic to an environment is incrementally updated in small phases, with each phase requiring verification to proceed to the next phase.
Canary Deployment Process- best for letting the users do the testing!
When you want to be sure that any bugs or bad deployments are relatively limited in scope and are easy to fix with little negative impact on your users.
