Implement canary deployment

Implement canary deployment by running two instances of nginx marked as version=v1 and version=v2 so that the load is balanced at 75%-25% ratio

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Deploy 3 replicas of v1:

apiVersion: apps/v1
kind: Deployment
metadata:
  name: my-app-v1
  labels:
    app: my-app
spec:
  replicas: 3
  selector:
    matchLabels:
      app: my-app
      version: v1
  template:
    metadata:
      labels:
        app: my-app
        version: v1
    spec:
      containers:
      - name: nginx
        image: nginx
        ports:
        - containerPort: 80
        volumeMounts:
        - name: workdir
          mountPath: /usr/share/nginx/html
      initContainers:
      - name: install
        image: busybox:1.28
        command:
        - /bin/sh
        - -c
        - "echo version-1 > /work-dir/index.html"
        volumeMounts:
        - name: workdir
          mountPath: "/work-dir"
      volumes:
      - name: workdir
        emptyDir: {}

Create the service:

apiVersion: v1
kind: Service
metadata:
  name: my-app-svc
  labels:
    app: my-app
spec:
  type: ClusterIP
  ports:
  - name: http
    port: 80
    targetPort: 80
  selector:
    app: my-app

Test if the deployment was successful:

curl $(kubectl get svc my-app-svc -o jsonpath="{.spec.clusterIP}")
version-1

Deploy 1 replica of v2:

apiVersion: apps/v1
kind: Deployment
metadata:
  name: my-app-v2
  labels:
    app: my-app
spec:
  replicas: 1
  selector:
    matchLabels:
      app: my-app
      version: v2
  template:
    metadata:
      labels:
        app: my-app
        version: v2
    spec:
      containers:
      - name: nginx
        image: nginx
        ports:
        - containerPort: 80
        volumeMounts:
        - name: workdir
          mountPath: /usr/share/nginx/html
      initContainers:
      - name: install
        image: busybox:1.28
        command:
        - /bin/sh
        - -c
        - "echo version-2 > /work-dir/index.html"
        volumeMounts:
        - name: workdir
          mountPath: "/work-dir"
      volumes:
      - name: workdir
        emptyDir: {}

Observe that calling the ip exposed by the service the requests are load balanced across the two versions:

while sleep 0.1; do curl $(kubectl get svc my-app-svc -o jsonpath="{.spec.clusterIP}"); done
version-1
version-1
version-1
version-2
version-2
version-1

If the v2 is stable, scale it up to 4 replicas and shoutdown the v1:

kubectl scale --replicas=4 deploy my-app-v2
kubectl delete deploy my-app-v1
while sleep 0.1; do curl $(kubectl get svc my-app-svc -o jsonpath="{.spec.clusterIP}"); done
version-2
version-2
version-2
version-2
version-2
version-2