Canary release strategy vs. Blue/Green

Question

My understanding of a canary release is that it\'s a partial release to a subset of production nodes with sticky sessions turned on. That way you can control and minimi

Answer 1

I have written a detailed essay on this topic here: http://blog.itaysk.com/2017/11/20/deployment-strategies-defined

In my opinion, the difference is whether or not the new 'green' version is exposed to real users. If it is, then I'd call it Canary. A common way to implement Canary is regular Blue/Green with the addition of smart routing of specific users to the new version. Read the post for a detailed comparison

Blue/Green:

Canary: