This is a guide where you will get hands-on experience with GitOps and Progressive Delivery using Kubernetes and Istio.

GitOps is a way to do Continuous Delivery, it works by using Git as a source of truth for declarative infrastructure and workloads. For Kubernetes this means using git push instead of kubectl apply/delete or helm install/upgrade.

In this workshop you'll be using GitHub to host the config repository and Flux as the GitOps delivery solution.

Progressive delivery is an umbrella term for advanced deployment patterns like canaries, feature flags and A/B testing. Progressive delivery techniques are used to reduce the risk of introducing a new software version in production by giving app developers and SRE teams a fine-grained control over the blast radius.

In this workshop you'll be using Flagger, Istio and Prometheus to automate Canary Releases and A/B Testing for your applications.