Argo Rollouts from the Trenches – Next Level Progressive Deliv... Kathleen Lamkin & Harriet Lawrence

Argo Rollouts from the Trenches – Next Level Progressive Delivery Best Practices - Kathleen Lamkin, Intuit & Harriet Lawrence, Red Hat

As the cloud native open source community gets more sophisticated with their continuous delivery strategies, best practices for progressive delivery methodologies become a prevalent discussion. Blue Green Deployments and Canary Deployments are the two main strategies implemented today, but how do you know which one is best for your use case? At Intuit and Red Hat, operational excellence is a top priority, and fine tuning our progressive delivery strategy is crucial for increasing confidence in our releases and reducing impact of change related incidents. Intuit’s TurboTax teams faced the predicament of remaining on a blue green deployment with the ability to run tests on production infrastructure before enabling live traffic increasing teams’ confidence in their releases OR migrating to canary deployment and reducing impact of change related incidents by deploying in stages to a percentage of live production traffic. In this talk, you will learn about how Intuit made the decision to migrate to Canary deployments on Argo Rollouts for thousands of services implementing an initial green step, how Red Hat is defining Argo Rollouts best practices with their customers, and what you can do today to overcome the challenge of understanding best practices in progressive delivery.