A fleet-wide version change is the most likely cause of the next unexplained performance regression, so the rollout is designed to make that attributable. Cohorts, a canary that measures rather than boots, and the rollback that has to be real before the first node is touched.
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A fleet-wide version change is the most likely cause of the next unexplained performance regression, so the rollout is designed to make that attributable. Cohorts, a canary that measures rather than boots, and the rollback that has to be real before the first node is touched.
Ranked by how closely each one overlaps this question's topic, so the first card is the thing to read if the answer above moved too fast.
Scored on measuring the canary rather than just booting it, on cohort ordering with a hold between cohorts, and on the version skew that multi-node jobs cannot tolerate.
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