Implement Progressive Delivery with Flagger for an E-Commerce Backend
Overview
What this challenge is about.
Install Flagger (or Argo Rollouts) into the existing Kubernetes + Istio stack. Configure canary analysis using Prometheus metrics: request-success-rate, request-duration p99, and a custom business metric (orders/min). Define progressive-delivery policy: 10 percent canary for 5 minutes, then 25, 50, 100 with automated rollback on metric breach. Apply to 3 representative services (checkout, catalog, account). Run a deliberate bad-deploy in stg and verify automated rollback. Deliver Flagger configs in the GitOps repo, working canaries in stg, and a 8-page writeup including the bad-deploy evidence.
The Brief
What you'll do, and what you'll demonstrate.
Implement Flagger-based progressive delivery on 3 backend services with automated metric-driven rollback, proved by a deliberate bad-deploy scenario.
Earning criteria — what you'll demonstrate
- Configure progressive delivery with metric-driven analysis
- Define SLO-based rollback policies that respect business metrics
- Integrate Flagger with Istio + Prometheus end-to-end
- Prove rollback automation with a controlled bad-deploy scenario
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