Installing Linkerd with Helm

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Linkerd is a service mesh that provides observability, reliability, and security for your Kubernetes applications. We can choose to install Linkerd using helm or it's linkerd CLI tool, which is a more hands-on way of achieving the same.

Since in the linkerd documentations is explicitly recommending to use helm for production environments, we are going to do exactly that.

19/03/2025

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