Question

Your team uses Cloud Deploy to release a customer-facing service to a GKE production target. Leadership wants new releases rolled out to a small percentage of traffic first, automatically verified against error-rate metrics, and rolled back without human intervention if verification fails. What should you configure in the Cloud Deploy delivery pipeline?

Accepted Answer

Define a canary deployment strategy with automated canary phases and a verify stage in the Skaffold configuration, enabling automatic rollback on verification failure.

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Use a standard (rolling) deployment strategy and add a manual approval gate before the production target so an operator can reject bad releases.

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Configure a blue-green strategy that fully deploys the new version alongside the old one and swaps all traffic at once after a fixed wait time.

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Create a Cloud Build trigger that deploys the release and add a separate Cloud Monitoring alerting policy that pages the on-call engineer to redeploy the previous image.