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Deploying a Sample Application with Canary Routing

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Christopher Adamson
Jan 30, 2026
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Now that your EKS cluster, App Mesh controller, and Flagger are ready, it’s time to deploy a real workload and configure it for automated canary deployments. In this part, we’ll use the well-known Podinfo microservice as our sample app, set up App Mesh virtual services and nodes, and create a Flagger Canary resource to drive progressive traffic shifting and automated rollbacks based on metrics.

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