Progressive Delivery in 2025 — Canary, Feature Flags, and AI-Driven Rollouts

Deploy on Friday? With progressive delivery, no problem. Canary at 1%, AI monitors metrics, automatic rollback in seconds.

Stack 2025¶

Argo Rollouts: Canary/blue-green. Flagger: Service mesh integration. LaunchDarkly/Flagsmith: Feature flags. Custom: AI anomaly detection.

AI-Driven Rollout Analysis¶

LLM analyzes metrics holistically: latency, error rate, new error types. Context-aware decision-making instead of threshold alerting.

Feature Flags + Canary¶

Feature flag for a new feature → canary deployment → feature for 1% of users → monitoring → gradual increase. Two layers of control.

Progressive Delivery Is Hygiene, Not Luxury¶

In 2025, there’s no reason to deploy any other way. An investment in the quality of your ops team’s sleep.