deployment-strategy-canary

A gradual canary rollout exposes changes to a small user segment first, learning before wider adoption. By monitoring guardrail metrics at each progression step, the system measures impact and automatically stops or rolls back if thresholds are breached.

Guardrails monitor specific metrics during a gradual rollout by checking them against predefined thresholds at each progression step. When a guardrail threshold is breached, stop and rollback automation halts the canary to prevent further impact.

The best way to plan progressive release steps for a canary is using rollout planning templates to define exposure gates and guardrail thresholds. This structures the release into measurable progression steps, ensuring risk-mitigation gates are met before wider traffic exposure.

Use a canary deployment strategy when incremental exposure and risk-mitigation are required for your release. It is ideal for measuring impact on a small user segment before committing to wider adoption, ensuring guardrail metrics validate the change.

Yes, you can customize promotion rules for canary progression steps. The strategy includes references to promotion rules and templates, allowing you to define specific gates and guardrail thresholds that dictate how traffic exposure increases.