Progressive Delivery

Overview Last week’s post closed with a promise that was really four promises: preview environments per change, release trains where stable and canary share a namespace, weighted traffic splitting on Gateway API HTTPRoutes, and promotion gates between all of it. Honesty being the house rule of this series: two of those four are running in anger, and two are still designs. This post is about the real two — ephemeral previews and promotion — and ends with a straight account of the other two, because I’d rather correct myself than let a closing paragraph quietly become marketing. ...

Overview For three weeks I’ve ended every post with the same claim and never once shown my work. The claim: the CNCF ecosystem already solved continuous delivery, and what the mid-market team is missing isn’t technology, it’s the assembly — a golden path stitched from primitives that already exist. Argo CD reconciles. Kargo promotes. The last post argued you should adopt that road as a product rather than build it as a project. ...