Blog Post - A Guide to Kubernetes Deployment Patterns: Canary, Blue / Green

In the pre-Kubernetes ecosystem, SREs and DevOps teams have often used deployment patterns to test new application code, configurations or services. Many Kubernetes users assume that you need a service mesh to run these deployment patterns effectively. That is only sometime the case. For example, it is relatively trivial to use service labels in Kubernetes to run Blue/Green tests without any changes to your service mesh. This post gives a detailed guide to various deployment patterns commonly asked for in the community and how to execute them in Kubernetes, either with or without a service mesh.

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