# Hands-Off Deployment with Canary

DevFeed: [Hands-Off Deployment with Canary](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/hands-off-deployment-with-canary-2043.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://developers.soundcloud.com/blog//hands-off-deployment-with-canary>)

Published: 2018-08-29T00:00:00Z

Content type: article

Language: en

Sources: [SoundCloud Backstage Blog](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/soundcloud-backstage-blog.md>)

Topics: [CI/CD](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/cicd.md>), [Developer Tools](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/developer-tools.md>)

Tags: [deployment](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/deployment.md>), [engineering](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/engineering.md>), [metrics](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/metrics.md>), [monitoring](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/monitoring.md>), [release](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/release.md>), [testing](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/testing.md>)

## AI overview

SoundCloud describes using canary releases alongside continuous-delivery pipelines to limit the impact of faulty deployments. Release candidates receive a small share of production traffic, and teams compare canary and production metrics to identify regressions before full rollout.

## Source excerpt

At SoundCloud, we follow best practices around continuous delivery, i.e. deploying small incremental changes often (many times a day). In...