What Is a Canary Deployment? A Complete 2025 Guide for Business Owners and DevOps Teams

Product Development Test Automation.

9 minutes readIn my work helping teams adopt canaries, I’ve seen several recurring mistakes. Here’s a “pro tip” list to avoid them: Pro Tip: Don’t skip staging testing. Canary isn’t your only safety net—use staging to catch basic issues first. Pro Tip: Use *user affinity* (sticky sessions) so the same users don’t bounce between canary & baseline… Read more »