HAProxy Skills Lab: Deployment Patterns in Kubernetes Using the HAProxy Kubernetes Ingress Controller

Deploy, upgrade, swap out, scale up, scale down. Kubernetes is chock full of options when it comes to creating and scheduling containers. Are you new to Kubernetes? Want to learn how replacing pods affects traffic flow? How should you configure your HAProxy Kubernetes Ingress Controller to relay traffic to new versions of your service? In this skills lab, you will learn:

• the role that an Ingress Controller plays during a deployment

• the pros and cons of rolling updates, blue-green deployments, and canary deployments

• how to plan ahead for upgrades

• tip for making the most of container tags, annotations and session persistence

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