Platform & DevOps·Pipelines, promotion and GitOps
your own staff get it first, then the tolerant customers, then everyone, over about a week.
Deployment ring
Also calledrings, ring-based deployment, staged rollout
Grouping the audience into ordered cohorts by risk tolerance and releasing outward through them. It differs from a canary in that the cohorts are populations rather than percentages of traffic, so it works for things a canary cannot cover — desktop clients, mobile releases, tenanted systems. The first ring being your own organisation is the whole trick, since it converts customer-found bugs into staff-found ones.