Linkerd addresses traffic management features as reliabilities due to some of the capabilities around auto-pilot to provide resiliency from inherent application failures. We will have a quick overview of all these traffic patterns in this section. Let's start with traffic splitting.
Reliability
Traffic split
Traffic split is a key concept that has recently gained popularity. It abstracts networking functions through a proxy without having to change the application. Traffic split allows dark launches of applications to select groups of users such as co-workers, friends, and family. Canary deployments (progressive traffic shift), A/B testing (HTTP header and cookie traffic routing), and blue/green deployments (traffic switch...
