17/0.1-canary/>Canary Deployments using Istio</a>.</p><p>The same issue exists when deploying updates to existing services. While you can update deployments with Kubernetes, it requires replacing v1 Pods with v2 Pods. Using Istio, you can deploy v2 of your service and use built-in traffic management mechanisms to shift traffic to your updated services at a network level, then remove the v1 Pods.</p><p>In addition to canary deployments and general traffic shifting, Istio also gives you the ability to impleme