KCNA Cloud Native Application Delivery Practice Question
A team wants to implement a canary deployment strategy for their Kubernetes application. Which tool is specifically designed for progressive delivery and can be used to automate canary rollouts?
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Argo Rollouts
Argo Rollouts is a Kubernetes controller and set of CRDs that provides advanced deployment capabilities such as blue-green and canary deployments with automated promotion and rollback.
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Argo Rollouts
Why this is correct
Argo Rollouts is purpose-built for progressive delivery with canary and blue-green deployments.
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Flux
Why it's wrong here
Flux is a GitOps tool that can integrate with Argo Rollouts, but by itself does not provide canary deployment capabilities.
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Kustomize
Why it's wrong here
Kustomize is for customizing Kubernetes manifests, not for progressive delivery.
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Helm
Why it's wrong here
Helm is a package manager for Kubernetes, but does not natively support canary deployments.
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