How do you structure a progressive rollout with automated guardrails?
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- (1) Deploy to 1% traffic.
- (2) Monitor N minutes: error rate, latency p50/p99, business KPI, model-specific metrics (calibration).
- (3) If any guardrail exceeded → auto-rollback + page.
- (4) Otherwise auto-advance to next stage (5% → 25% → 50% → 100%).
- (5) Each stage has minimum bake time.
- Tools: Flagger, Argo Rollouts, LaunchDarkly.
- Metrics + thresholds pre-configured before rollout.
- No human intervention if all green.
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- 1%→5%→25%→50%→100% with per-stage bake time; auto-monitor error/latency/KPI/calibration; guardrail breach → auto-rollback + page; tools Flagger / Argo Rollouts / LaunchDarkly
- Just deploy
- Not real
Progressive rollout: stages + bake time + guardrails + auto-rollback.
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