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<p>This post was updated on May 16, 2018 to use the latest version of the traffic management model.</p>
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<p>One of the benefits of the <a href="/v0.8/">Istio</a> project is that it provides the control needed to deploy canary services. The idea behind
canary deployment (or rollout) is to introduce a new version of a ser