controllers/deployment/#scaling-a-deployment">horizontal pod autoscaler</a> to the Deployment and it will keep the replica ratios consistent if, during the rollout process, it also needs to scale replicas up or down to handle traffic load.</p>
<p>Although fine for what it does, this approach is only useful when we have a properly tested version that we want to deploy, i.e., more of a blue/green, a.k.a. red/black, kind of upgrade than a &ldquo;dip your feet in the water&rdquo; kind of canary deployment. In f