Open Networking Summit North America 2018

Continuous delivery is becoming increasingly critical as it enables business agility, hypothesis driven development, and software stability. However, implementing continuous delivery is a hard problem many enterprises struggle with due to live users in production environment.

Canary upgrades and Blue/Green deployment are the two commonly used patterns to implement continuous delivery. In Canary upgrades, a small portion of the production traffic is sent to the new version under test. In Blue/Green deployments, all the traffic is switched to the new version.

We will show how to fully automate above steps to achieve true continuous delivery in K8s. We will show how to use analytics to express and automate application evaluation and ML-based traffic switching without any downtime. We will demo both schemes on a web application.