Argo Rollouts: Canary deployments

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A canary deployment is a technique to reduce the risk of introducing a new version of a software application in production by slowly rolling out the change to a small subset of users before rolling it out to the entire infrastructure. If any issue is detected on the "canary", the deployment can be stopped, and the rest of the users won't be affected. With Argo Rollouts, we can easily implement this strategy.

18/03/2025

Argo Rollouts: Blue-Green deployments

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Argo Rollouts is a Kubernetes controller and set of CRDs for progressive delivery. It can be used to orchestrate blue-green deployments, canary releases, and rollouts. We are going to take a look at how to use Argo Rollouts to perform a blue-green deployment.

17/03/2025

Installing Argo Rollouts

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Installing Argo Rollouts is very simple, as it is a lightweight controller that can be installed using kustomize. We can also install the CLI to interact with it and start a dashboard to visualize the status of our rollouts.

This controller provides missing deployment strategies like Blue/Green and Canary in a Kubernetes native and GitOps friendly manner.

26/02/2025