Adobe OpenStack Upgrade Strategy No Downtime and Canary Releases
Channel: OpenInfra Foundation
Date: 03/12/2018

Upgrading an OpenStack infrastructure often means either downtime (for some services like Metadata), or running in a degraded mode (Control Plane or limited functionality). At Adobe, we had to figure out an approach that doesnt impact our users and stakeholders. We had to provide strong evidence for the upgrade benefits and its performances impact. We started to do a canary releases by deploying new OpenStack version alongside existing deployments and by offloading small subset of production wor