Canary Deployment
Kind: pattern
Layer: Correctness Core
Aliases: Canary Release
Record: architecture:canary-deployment
Severity: contextual
Scope: deployment, release
Canonical: Ontology
A design pattern that sends a small share of traffic to a new release and widens the share only while its error and latency stay within limits.
Listed in Architecture principles, after Blue-Green Deployment and before Chaos Engineering.