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Responding to microservice code releases using DevOps canary or blue/green deployment methodologies

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As part of your DevOps lifecycle, you use canary deployment methodology and introduce new versions of microservice code releases on a daily basis.

  • If you're an SRE, you need to accelerate the ability to identify application degradations caused by microservice releases introduced downstream in an environment where there are hundreds of microservices being updated by multiple development teams. 
  • If you're a service developer, you need to accelerate your ability to quickly identify degradations (mean time to detect) for your service release deployments. You also need to understand what business applications and workflows are impacted and quickly restore them (mean time to respond) to minimize risks to the business.

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You can use use Splunk APM MetricSets to identify and respond to frequent microservice code releases, helping you to mitigate business risks using DevOps canary or blue/green deployment methodologies. This drives operational optimization and excellence within your organization, resulting in MTTD and MTTR improvements.

In this example, the fictional OnlineBoutique consumes many microservices to run its online sales portal. The ‘payment service’ development team introduces rapid releases as part of the DevOps CI/CD pipeline. They just released v350.10 as part of their canary based deployment methodology. Watch this video to find out how you can design, build, and implement an effective solution, like OnlineBoutique does.

  • paymentservice microservice is used by many applications at CSCorp.
  • version tag is a standard at CSCorp. This is instrumented within code for all services.
  • App_name tag is standard at CSCorp. This is instrumented at all front end services for each application 
  • Frontend service is the main entrypoint gateway for OnlineBoutique app.

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  • Splunk Customer Support: Contact Splunk to discuss your environment and receive customer support.

To fully unlock the power of Splunk, we strongly recommend our comprehensive Splunk training. At this stage in your journey, we recommend you explore Splunk Observability training courses.

Now that you're doing more with your data, get even more value through implementing additional use cases, or finding out how to leverage additional data sources.