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LABINTERMEDIATE

Canary Deployments with Flagger

Implement automated canary deployments using Flagger with metrics-based analysis.

50 minutes
platform-engineering/progressive-delivery
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Lab Overview

This hands-on lab teaches you to implement canary deployments using Flagger for progressive delivery.

You'll learn to:

  • Install Flagger with a service mesh provider (Contour)
  • Configure applications for canary analysis
  • Deploy applications using canary release strategy
  • Analyze deployment metrics for automated promotion

Flagger automates progressive delivery by gradually shifting traffic and validating deployment health through metrics analysis.

What You'll Learn

Install Flagger with Contour ingress controller

Configure canary resources for progressive delivery

Execute canary deployments with traffic shifting

Analyze metrics for automated promotion decisions

Prerequisites

kubernetes-fundamentals

kubectl-basics

helm-basics

prometheus-basics

Technologies Covered

flaggercanaryprogressive-deliverykubernetesmetricscnpe

Part of a Course

This lab is part of the Certified Cloud Native Platform Engineer (CNPE) course

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